A gloriously weird folk-art museum packed with 50,000-plus found objects, homemade inventions, and oddball Southern dioramas, an easy 40-minute hop north of New Orleans in Abita Springs.
Road trips · Louisiana
Louisiana road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in Louisiana — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
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This Acadiana town leaned all the way into being the self-proclaimed Frog Capital of the World, painting vivid frog murals across its downtown brick walls between Lafayette and Lake Charles.
Billed as the world's smallest church, this 9-by-9-foot chapel sits along the River Road in tiny Bayou Goula — the key waits in a box by the door, so anyone can let themselves in to peek inside.
Out of Henderson you can board an airboat into the country's largest river swamp, gliding past moss-draped cypress and resident gators in the heart of Cajun Country.
In Louisiana's far-northeast corner near Epps stand 3,700-year-old earthen mounds so significant they earned UNESCO World Heritage status, with a small museum and tram tours.
In tiny Gibsland, the former cafe where the outlaws bought their last sandwiches now displays a "death car" replica, rare photos, and artifacts from their 1934 ambush nearby — a gripping true-crime stop.
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