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The only cave in Louisiana has played host to a state's-worth of clandestine activities.

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

A serene but haunting memorial to protective wetland lost, the absence of which directly damaged the Lower 9th Ward following Hurricane Katrina.

This sinkhole was created by a tragic industrial accident and continues to ravage the surrounding landscape.

Roadside attraction with more than 1,000 stuffed and mounted animal skins displayed in simulated natural habitats with hand-painted backdrops.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

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

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

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

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.

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

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

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

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

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

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

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

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

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

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

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.