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This New Orleans boutique and nursery specializes in rare flora, with a focus on carnivorous plants.

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

Dine on Isan-style specialties lovingly rendered in all their fiery, umami-loaded glory.

This site is dedicated to a candidate for sainthood and contains personal items including his cilice and lead coffin.

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

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

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

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

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

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

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

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.

Striking images of New Orleans history, including colonizers, soldiers, Klansmen, scientists, sharecroppers, and more, are depicted in frescoes that line the walls of this transportation hub.

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.

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

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

This 45-story tall abandoned skyscraper is the third tallest building in New Orleans and Lousiana.

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

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

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

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

After the oysters have been shucked, and the restaurant's been shuttered, the terrazzo sidewalk from the 1940s is all that remains.