Step back in time to a small 19th-century Cajun bayou community, which includes genuine Cajun homes relocated and combined with recreated period buildings and a Native American museum.

Get a taste of life for the 18th-century Acadian settlers in this 23-acre village with meticulously recreated period homes, costumed staff demonstrating arts and crafts and a restaurant serving Cajun and Creole food.

Built in 1800 by city founder Jean Mouton, this antebellum home later belonged to Jean's son, Alexandre, first Democratic governor of Louisiana, and now houses antiques, paintings and a collection of Mardi Gras costumes.

This Lafayette club features a lot of zydeco, Creole boogeying music, guaranteed to get you up out of your seat and dancing.

This quasi-Romanesque brick cathedral in Lafayette is worth a look.

The park grounds include a museum, a Creole plantation and an 18th-century Acadian shack.

Free museum located in a converted train depot, which offers an eclectic collection of Cajun music artifacts, a railroad caboose, old Mardi Gras displays and much more.

Preserving works of art unique to the cultural heritage of Southwestern Louisiana, this museum's permanent collection includes more than 1,000 paintings, prints and sculpture of 18th, 19th and 20th-century Louisiana artists.

The cultural heritage of Southwestern Louisiana is preserved at this combination museum and planetarium, which houses over 1,000 paintings, prints and sculpture of Louisiana artists and regularly changing exhibits and planetarium programs.