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

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

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

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

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

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

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

A museum dedicated to the lovable crime couple Bonnie & Clyde, just a few miles away from the site of their early demise.

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

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

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

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

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