There is a bridge in the sculpture garden of the New Orleans Museum of Art that has you walking over the lagoon on about a dozen historical paths of the Mississippi, stretched somewhat straight.

The photo on their site really does not do it justice: https://noma.org/collection/mississippi-meanders/

Walking along it and thinking about how we've tried to keep it in place for the past few hundred years, and the ephemerality of human affairs, is an interesting experience. Especially if you live along its course.