Places katemonkey Wants to Go

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

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.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

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

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

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

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

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.