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.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.

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

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

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

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

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

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

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

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

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

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

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

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

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.