Places leilat Wants to Go

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

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

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

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

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

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

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

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

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

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

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

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

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

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

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

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

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

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

Housed inside a replica church, its collection honors the Black community displaced by the Halifax government.

How would you like to dine in the same room where some of the Titanic's victims were embalmed?

This Canadian island is a veritable garden of decay with countless abandoned structures dotting the landscape.

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.