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Roadside attraction with more than 1,000 stuffed and mounted animal skins displayed in simulated natural habitats with hand-painted backdrops.

This strange example of the Egyptian Revival architecture trend now holds Mardi Gras floats.

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

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

This strange, small castle on the bayou has withstood the test of time and weather.

The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

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

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

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.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

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

The humble beginnings of one of America’s greatest songsmiths.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

An unusual art exhibition in a suburban yard is designed to awaken the souls of those flowing by.