Customize your day with a tour of a New Orleans plantation and your pick of another historic estate or Louisiana's swamp country. Choose to visit the Oak Alley or Laura Plantations, where you learn of their dark pasts, or board a boast and immerse yourself in the biodiversity of the wetlands.

Tour the beautiful grounds of the Oak Alley Plantation, a national historic landmark that dates back to 1837. Behind the estate's beautifully preserved Greek Revival architecture and eponymous alleyway of stately oak trees lies a tragic history of slave labor. Visit an authentic blacksmith as well as the slave quarters to learn about the dark past of the opulent plantation.

Choose whether to continue on to Laura Plantation, getting a more intimate look into the contrast between outward elegance and oppression behind the scenes, or explore Louisiana's famous swamp country. If you choose the swamp, climb onto an airboat or swamp boat and venture through a wildlife preserve replete with marshes and hidden waterways that give insight into the biodiversity of the wetlands.