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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This city block-long devotional site, a replica of a famous site in France, is dedicated to the patron saint of grandmothers, mothers, and educators.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

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

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

In 1810, free people of color made up more of New Orleans's population than any other Southern city.

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

A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

This Art Deco airport was once deemed “the air hub of the Americas.”

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

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

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.