New Orleans, Louisiana Attractions
Unusual landmarks, museums, roadside attractions, and hidden wonders in New Orleans and the surrounding area. Museums devoted to Mardi Gras and voodoo, plus a lot of strange graves above ground. The steamy, food-addled, jazz-honking French Quarter cradles statues of Fats Domino and Ignatius J. Reilly.
Sights for Oddball Excursions
Mardi Gras World
New Orleans, Louisiana
Tour of a giant warehouse and art studio full of bizarre Mardi Gras props and floats.
Voodoo Museum
New Orleans, Louisiana
Real human skulls, voodoo dolls, and a Rougarou: a man with a gator head. Small, but packed with real voodoo items.
Quirky Monuments of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana
Since the 1850s, New Orleans has erected statues and public works of art to celebrate its heroes and quirks.
Storyland
New Orleans, Louisiana
26 fairy tale statues and buildings built by Mardi Gras float-makers.
National WWII Museum
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans was the manufacturing center for D-Day landing craft by shipbuilder Andrew Higgins.
In and Around New Orleans
Choice field reports and tips. Or check out: Complete list of Louisiana attractions.
- New Orleans: National WWII Museum
- New Orleans: Voodoo Museum
- New Orleans: Storyland
- New Orleans: Quirky Monuments of New Orleans
- New Orleans: Mardi Gras World
- New Orleans: Molly Marine
- New Orleans: Statue of Ignatius J. Reilly
- New Orleans: Museum of Death [tips]
- New Orleans: Germaine Cazenave Wells Mardi Gras Museum [tips]
- New Orleans: Benito Juarez, Hero of Mexico
- New Orleans: Fats Domino and Thomas Edison
- New Orleans: Nicholas Cage's Pyramid Tomb
- New Orleans: Grave of Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen
- New Orleans: The Man Who Built New Orleans
- New Orleans: Insectarium: Largest Bug Museum in U.S.
- New Orleans: New Orleans Pharmacy Museum [tips]
- New Orleans: Lighthouse Building [tips]
- New Orleans: Old Man River
- New Orleans: Cabildo Museum - Death Mask, Leeches [tips]
- New Orleans: Marie Laveau House of Voodoo
- New Orleans: Andy Jackson: New Orleans' Favorite President
