Abita Mystery House (UCM Museum) — Quirky Museums & Collections in New Orleans
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Entry No. 18 — the New Orleans file — filed under: roadside-oddity

Abita Mystery House (UCM Museum)

Artist John Preble built this folk-art warren around a vintage gas station and filled it with more than 50,000 found and recycled objects. You wind past push-button animated dioramas of Southern life, old arcade machines, the glass-and-pottery-encrusted House of Shards, and homemade chimeras like Darrel the dogigator and Buford the bassigator. Everything is built from junk and presented with deadpan humor rather than spectacle.

The move: Spend an hour cranking the animated miniature towns and hunting for the weirdest taxidermy mashup, then split a root beer next door at the Abita brewpub.

Where: 22275 Hwy 36, Abita Springs, LA 70420

Hours: Added 2026-06-22 — confirm current hours before you go.

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last checked: 2026-06-22