Places Cornchops Wants to Go

The oldest Black-owned bookstore in New Orleans was started by a substitute teacher on a mission.

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

In a city famous for its cemeteries, it's no wonder these are easy to overlook—they clock in at just a few inches tall.

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

Inside this art and oddity-filled shop, a small room filled with secrets.

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

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

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

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

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.

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.

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

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

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

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

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

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

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.

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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