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

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.

After the oysters have been shucked, and the restaurant's been shuttered, the terrazzo sidewalk from the 1940s is all that remains.

This city block-long devotional site, a replica of a famous site in France, is dedicated to the patron saint of grandmothers, mothers, and educators.

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

A calm and comfortable place to hang out with cats and kittens up for adoption.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.