The Myrtles Plantation

David Bradford built this house in 1796. He'd led the Whiskey Rebellion; the house sits in what was then remote Louisiana territory. The cast-iron gallery runs 85 feet along the front facade — among the most intact plantation ironwork still standing in Louisiana. Hand-painted French stained glass crowns the front entry door. The place is widely promoted as one of America's most haunted homes. Two tours run. The mystery tour delivers ghost stories. The daytime history tour sticks to documented fact. Both run through the same rooms; you're choosing the frame, not the building. The ironwork and the stained glass remain either way, materials that survived whatever came after Bradford. The National Register lists it. If you go, decide whether you want the legend or the gallery. Both versions end at the same door.