Places april4morels Wants to Go

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

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

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

Feast on twice-cooked goat with plantains and other Haitian street food dishes.

Dine on Isan-style specialties lovingly rendered in all their fiery, umami-loaded glory.

The neighborhood surrounding the memorial was the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in Louisiana.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

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

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

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

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

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

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

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

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

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

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

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

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

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

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

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.