Places alecgator33 Wants to Go

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

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

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

A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.

This New Orleans boutique and nursery specializes in rare flora, with a focus on carnivorous plants.

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

The last surviving bastion of the Baquet restaurant empire serves up superb soul food.

This museum tells a lively, personal, and wide-ranging history of jazz music.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

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

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

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

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

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

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

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

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

This outdoor observatory offers stellar views and a scale model of our solar system.