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Strange Museums

Museum of Death

New Orleans, Louisiana

Coffins, skulls, morgue photography, mortician tools, body bags, and serial-killer correspondence fill a museum that makes death the entire subject instead of a side exhibit.

Strange Museums

New Orleans Pharmacy Museum

New Orleans, Louisiana

Opium, patent medicines, antique surgical tools, old prescriptions, anesthetics, and officially labeled questionable medical practices fill a nineteenth-century apothecary.

Frog mural by artist Robert Dafford in Rayne, Louisiana, the Frog Capital of the World

Roadside Attractions

Rayne’s Frog Army

Rayne, Louisiana

The Frog Capital of the World did not stop at a nickname. Painted concrete frogs, giant frog art, murals, a live frog pond, and amphibian mascots…

Strange Museums

Bayou St. John Mystery Submarine

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

A hand-cranked Civil War-era submarine recovered from New Orleans waters was misidentified for generations, and its original name and builder remain uncertain.

Natural Oddities

Lake Peigneur

New Iberia, Louisiana

In 1980, a drilling accident opened a path into a salt mine beneath Lake Peigneur, creating a whirlpool that swallowed a rig, barges, boats, land, and…

Strange Museums

Louisiana Prison Museum

Angola, Louisiana

Beside the gates of a massive maximum-security prison, this museum preserves the Red Hat cellblock story and Louisiana's bizarre era of a traveling electric chair.

Roadside Attractions

Singing Oak

New Orleans, Louisiana

A sprawling live oak in City Park carries tuned wind chimes across its branches, including one roughly fourteen feet long, turning ordinary wind into a five-note-scale…

Strange Museums

Bonnie & Clyde Ambush Museum

Gibsland, Louisiana

A former cafe tied to Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow's final hours holds ambush artifacts, a death-car replica, and the story of the roadside trap waiting…

Gothic-style Beauregard Parish Jail in DeRidder, Louisiana

Historic Oddities

Gothic Hanging Jail

DeRidder, Louisiana

A poured-concrete Gothic jail with a spiral staircase, underground courthouse tunnel, steel bunks, skylit cells, and an execution site hidden inside its dramatic tower.

Strange Museums

Abita Mystery House

Abita Springs, Louisiana

Tucked away in the Louisiana town of Abita Springs, the Abita Mystery House is a wonderfully strange collection of homemade inventions, folk art, found objects, and…