All Other Destinations and Attractions in Louisiana

The Heritage Museum in Baker is housed in a 1906 Victorian home that offers local history displays. Heritage Village features reconstructed turn-of-the-20th-century buildings.

The Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1988 and provides habitat for native wildlife including alligators, white-tailed deer as well as more than 200 migrating and wintering bird species. The refuge has two distinct areas - the Gibbstown Unit, a freshwater haven for wildlife and waterfowl; and the East Cove Unit, a salt marsh for boats only.

Walter B Jacobs Memorial Nature Park is a 160-acre park that features a pine-oak-history forest and a preserve for bird-watching. Five nature trails provide hiking opportunities with wildlife and native trees.

Touchstone's Wildlife and Art Museum features more than 1,000 animals from around the world as well as displays of American Indian artifacts and memorabilia from the Civil War and World Wars I and II.

Fort Jackson was built between 1822 and 1832 and was intended to defend the mouth of the Mississippi River. The fort was used during the Civil War, and then modified in 1898 and used during the Spanish-American War. It was later used as a World War I training camp.

The rear house at the Houmas House plantation was built in the late 1700s, with characteristics of both Spanish and rural French architecture. The Greek Revival mansion was added in 1840. The mansion is furnished with early 19th C antiques and a collection of armoires.

6 mi. east of New Orleans is Chalmette National Historical Park, where General Jackson defeated the British forces in 1815. In the National Cemetery are the graves of 12,000 Union soldiers who fell in the Civil War.

The Loyd Hall Plantation near Cheneyville has been operated continuously since 1800. Highlights of the home include period furniture, a suspended staircase, ornate plaster ceilings and bullet holes from during the Civil War.

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The Kate Chopin House-Bayou Folk Museum is located on the site of Kate Chopin's home from 1879-1884. She is best known for "The Awakening" and "Bayou Folk" a collection of her short stories.

The Schepis Building was constructed in Columbia in 1916 by John Schepis, a Sicilian architect who became a shopkeeper after he emigrated to America. He created life-size statues of George Washington and Christopher Columbus by designing and carving clay statues, molding them with plaster of Paris, and casting them in concrete. These monuments, located on the second floor, were his tribute to the country of his birth and his new home.

The fifth generation of Smiths runs the family store in Covington. Visitors can see receipts for wagon wheels and farm implements delivered by schooners, which docked at the foot of Columbia Street. Items on display include a hand-operated washing machine, farm tools and a 1920s gas pump.

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The first owner of Tezcuco Plantation, a Greek Revival plantation home, was Benjamin Tureaud. He named it Tezcuco, which means "resting place". The rooms are furnished in period and feature art collections, crystal, silver and pottery. Old oak trees and formal gardens are located on the grounds as well as a chapel, blacksmith shop and a commissary museum.

The DeQuincy Railroad Museum was formerly the Kansas City Depot, when it was built in 1923, the depot was transferred to the city of DeQuincy in 1975. Railroad memorabilia and equipment including a 1913 steam locomotive, two cabooses and a 1947 passenger coach are on display.

Evergreen Plantation has 37 intact buildings, including 22 slave cabins, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Evergreen is privately owned and continues as a working sugar cane plantation.

Tours highlight the 250 years of family ownership, the architectural importance of the buildings, and emphasis on the plantation's dependence on slave labor.

The Poverty Point National Monument serves as a memorial to culture that existed during the first and second millennia BC. Some of the largest prehistoric earthworks are found here. A museum, observation tower and interpretive walking and driving trails are on the grounds.

Global Wildlife Center is home to more than 3,000 animals in a 900-acre park. Visitors can travel on the guided Safari Wagon tours.

Frogmore is an 1800-acre working cotton plantation, with 18 buildings that date from the early 1800's. The history of the early Natchez planters and their slaves is presented. The plantation has a computerized cotton gin that can process 900 bales a day.

Wildlife Gardens is a bed and breakfast that lets visitors wander the gardens, which surround a natural swamp; view native plants and animals; and feed the alligators.

The German-American Cultural Center is a regional museum and cultural center that features the contributions of Germans in the development of Louisiana since 1721. New Orleans was a major port of entry for German immigrant through the 19th century.

The 125,000-acre Sabina National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1937. It is home to ducks, geese, alligators, muskrats, nutria, raptors, wading birds, shorebirds, blue crabs and shrimp. The nature trail features 15 stations that allow visitors to become familiar with the Gulf Coast marsh. Bank fishing and boating is permitted from mid-May to mid-October.

The Bicentennial Park and Museum in Jeanerette is housed in a cypress home built in 1902. Displays in the museum depicts the last 200 years of the sugar cane industry with a short film that highlights the making of sugar.

The Swamp Room has 40 native specimens of natural wildlife with a mural background. The Cypress Room has hand made cypress patterns on display.

The Catahoula National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1958. It has nature trails, an observation tower, and natural habitat for native and migratory waterfowl, alligators, beavers, deer, bobcats and otters on more than 25,000 acres.

The Torres' Cajun Swamp Tours feature a narrated boat ride on Bayou Boeuf swamp with sights such as alligators, turtles, snakes, herons, egrets, and nutria.

Historical displays, an art gallery, a library with a collection of Audubon prints and recreations of 19th C rooms are featured at the Imperial Calcasieu Museum in Lake Charles. The rooms include a pharmacy, a Victorian bedroom, a parlor, a country store and a barbershop. A 300-year-old oak tree is on the grounds of the museum.

The Louisiana State Cotton Museum in Lake Providence preserves the history and heritage of cotton cultivation and its influence on life in Louisiana. Exhibits include an 1840's farmhouse, a 1920 Gullet Cotton Gin, and a sharecropper's cabin.

Displays at the Fort Polk Military Museum include uniforms, insignias and small arms of the 12th US division that served at the fort. A 2.5-acre park has artillery pieces, tanks, helicopters and other vehicles.

The Mansfield State Historic Site was the site of battle of the Red River campaign in 1864. Mansfield State Historic Site has a museum that exhibits Civil War weapons, arms, uniforms, letters, diaries, and documents.

The Hypolite Bordelon Home was built in the late 18th C in Marksville. The home features Louisiana-French architecture. Furnishings are of the early 19th C.

The Rebel State Historic Site is located 3mi/5km northwest of Marthaville. It is the site of Unknown Confederate Soldier. The Confederate soldier became separated from his group and was killed by three Union cavalrymen. A local family, the Barnhills, buried him and several generations of the family have cared for his grave.

The Germantown Colony was founded by German settlers in 1835 and operated under a communal system. The original kitchen, dining hall and one cabin at the Germantown Colony and Museum feature artifacts used by the settlers.

Henry Howard, New Orleans' most prominent architect, designed Madewood in 1846. The Napoleonville mansion resembles a Greek temple. A large carriage house, a riverboat captain's home dating from 1822 and Elmfield Cottage are located on the grounds.

The Pointe Coupee Parish Museum in New Roads is a rare example of a log cabin construction in a Creole house. The original portion of the house dates from the early 19th century. Before 1840, a boussilage (mud and animal hair mixture applied in between timbers) addition was made. The home is furnished in the style of a poor family during the early 19th century.

Built in three stages by the Routh and Nutt families in 1805, the original mansion at the Winter Quarters State Historic Site was the centerpiece of Dr Haller Nutt's extensive cotton holdings. Nutt's wife, Julia, saved the home from destruction during the Civil War by feeding and housing General Ulysses S Grant's forces. Period furnishings, and copies of diaries on agriculture, and medicine are on display.

The Caddo-Pine Island Oil and Historical Museum is located in the old railroad depot and features displays of early oil field equipment, railroad memorabilia, early 1900s postcards and photographs. The Caddo Indian Room features relics and arrowheads dating back 10,000 years.

Exhibits at the Opelousas Museum and Interpretive Center feature prehistory, agriculture, home and family, business and professions, music, food and a Hall of Fame. Highlights include the Civil War, the Geraldine Smith Welch Doll Collection, the Louisiana Video Collection Library and the Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music Festival Archives.

The Wedell-Williams Memorial Aviation Museum is named for two famous Louisiana aviators - Jimmie Wedell and Harry Williams - who formed an air service in Patterson in the 1928. Items on display include an airworthy replica of Wedell's "44" racer, a 1939 D175 Beechcraft or "Staggerwing" and a Presidential Aero-Commander 680.

The more than 600,000 acre Kisatchie National Forest provides many recreational opportunities such as camping, picnicking, swimming, fishing, boating, hiking, hunting, horseback riding, sightseeing, and road and mountain bicycle riding.

The Plaquemine Lock State Historic Site features a lock that was completed in 1909 and served as a short cut from the Mississippi River into Louisiana's interior. A 40ft/12m observation tower provides a view of the Mississippi River and the lock complex.

Built in Garyville in 1856 by Edmond Bozonier Marmillion, the San Francisco Plantation was originally named St Frusquin, a name derived from the French slang term, sans Fruscins, meaning "without a penny in my pocket", a reference to its high cost. Five hand-painted mural ceilings, period antiques and vivid colors are highlights of the interior.

The Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge is located 16mi/26km from downtown New Orleans. It features more than 23,000 acres of habitats for various fish species, crabs, and shrimp; largemouth bass, crappie, bluegill, and catfish; and 340 species of birds.

The La Branche Plantation Dependency House was built in 1792 and is furnished with period antiques. Visitors can view the authentic slave quarter, the largest pecan tree in the state of Louisiana, Zachery Taylor's bathtub, and the grave of Hitler's horse - Nordlicht.

The Chretien Point Plantation was built in 1831 by Hypolite Chretien. This 12-room brick mansion was located on his 10,000-acre cotton plantation. Now on 20-acres, the restored house has six Tuscan columns and lunettes over doors and windows. It is now a bed and breakfast.

The Louisiana State Arboretum is located north of Ville Platte. It is home to giant beech, magnolia, oak, and ash trees that can be viewed from atop the many ridges in the more than 300 acre area. Wildlife, white-tail deer, wild turkey, raccoon, opossum, fox, skunk, squirrel, and numerous species of birds, can be spotted throughout the nature trail.

John Hampden Randolph planned and built Nottoway in White Castle in 1859, but his wife Emily, saved the mansion from destruction through heroic efforts during the Civil War. The 64-room mansion is a blend of Greek Revival and Italianate style architecture. Some of the unusual conveniences, for its time, were gas lamps, indoor bathrooms and an intercom system that used silver call bells in each room.

Port Hudson was the site of a 48 day siege during the Civil War. The battle was for Port Hudson and control of the Mississippi River. The site features a museum, outdoor cannon displays and an observation tower.