>>3113021You also miss out on the Original Oyster House (on the Causeway) and the USS Alabama (an Iowa Class WWII battleship, and they have a bunch of other random military stuff like an old sub, the USS Drum, an SR-71 Blackbird, a few different types of NASA rockets, and random pieces of armor).
In Mobile, check out the downtown and take Government Street away from I-10 out of the downtown area to midtown and check out the Azalea Trail if you're wanting to see some more of the Antebellum architecture. The downtown government building is a pretty amazing piece of godawful contemporary architecture as well...oh, and downtown there's an old Spanish/French/British fort (Fort Conde) and if you are feeling froggy, there's a plaque you can find that details the last slave sold. If you poke around on Water Street, you can find the state docks and a few dry docks which can get your industrial fuzzies warmed. The highrise hotels downtown can get you a better view.
Heading west from there, you get to see the places that actually got fucked up by Katrina (as in essentially wiped off the map) that no one ever talks about like Pass Christian, Gulfport, Biloxi, and Ocean Springs Mississippi. There's also a shitton of ship builders in this area and it's worth exploring a little in the rural areas (forget what you've heard, you'll be safe. People might look at you funny, but that'll be about it).
Umm, be a tourist in New Orleans. It's what the city is made for. If you want authentic New Orleans, you go at least an hour away from New Orleans. Fun fact: there's some island coonasses southeast of NOLA that for some weird reason have accents like that of the Bronx.
Kinda wish I were down there, I could meet you somewhere and show you some of the more neat stuff that I couldn't begin to describe in a post.
