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

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.

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

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

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

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

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

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

This taxidermy horse was a Civil War hero.

The 28,000-year-old specimen is remarkably intact.

Also known as the Founding Church of Scientology.

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.