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

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

This Louisiana folk art gallery is a gnarled collection of driftwood homonculi.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

A swamp and garden tour featuring local wildlife and exotic botanical specimens from around the world.

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

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

A museum dedicated to the lovable crime couple Bonnie & Clyde, just a few miles away from the site of their early demise.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

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

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

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

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.