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

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

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

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

This free sculpture garden is home to over 90 artworks and installations from artists around the world.

An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.

The last surviving bastion of the Baquet restaurant empire serves up superb soul food.

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

Feast on twice-cooked goat with plantains and other Haitian street food dishes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

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

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

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

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

A reimagined 19th-century Acadian village featuring authentic Cajun-style homes filled with artifacts specific to the period.

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.