New Orleans, Louisiana - Attractions

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Detailed listings of attractions are mentioned in the Districts sections listed above. Highlights include:

• Historic architecture in neighborhoods
  • Ornate colonial French and Spanish in The French Quarter
  • Victorian mansions Uptown
• Historic cemeteries
• the Superdome, in the Central Business District
• Museums and Aquarium of the Americas, Central Business District
• Audubon Zoo, Uptown
• New Orleans Museum of Art and City Park in Mid-City
• the Mississippi River - great views from the French Quarter, the Algiers ferry, and the Audubon Zoo "Butterfly" park Uptown
• St. Louis Cathedral holds regular celebrations of the Catholic Mass
• Occult and Voodoo Destinations
  • The Alombrados Encampment hosts the Gnostic Mass and frequent classes on Magick
  • Island of Salvation Botanica distributes Voodoo goods and holds Voodoo ceremonies
  • Starling Books and Crafts and Esoterica supply excellent wares, herbs, and oils.

Museums

Musee Conti Wax Museum - Experience more than 300 years of History, Legend and Scandal with the 154 life-size figures displayed in historically accurate settings.

Also located in the French Quarter is the old New Orleans Mint, a former branch of the United States Mint which now operates as a museum, and The Historic New Orleans Collection, a museum and research center housing art and artifacts relating to the history of New Orleans and the Gulf South.

The National World War II Museum, opened in the Warehouse District in 2000 as the "National D-Day Museum,", is dedicated to providing information and materials related to the allied invasion of Battle of Normandy, France. The National D-Day Museum's exhibits encompass the June 6, 1944 invasion of Normandy, the Home Front during WWII, and the D-Day Invasions in the Pacific. Exhibit galleries incorporate text panels, artifacts, and Personal Account stations in which visitors may listen to the stories of WWII veterans and others who supported the war effort.

Nearby Confederate Memorial Hall, the oldest continually operating museum in Louisiana (although under renovation since Katrina), contains the second-largest collection of Confederate memorabilia in the world.

Art museums in the city include the Contemporary Arts Center, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) in City Park (New Orleans)|City Park, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.