An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

A private museum dedicated to preserving the heritage of Mardi Gras' most beloved underdog parades, open by appointment.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.