There are a ton of places in Louisiana that, for various reasons, have been completely abandoned. And there are a ton of people who love to explore them.
It's been over a decade since Hurricane Katrina devastated a huge swath of the Gulf Coast, especially New Orleans. You can still see evidence of the storm's destruction up and down the I-10 corridor.
I recall that when I was working at another radio station in Texas about a year after Katrina, the company that employed me at the time had its annual managers' conference in New Orleans...