Oddities & curiosities in New Orleans
Looking for oddity shops & curiosities in New Orleans? These 9 are the genuinely strange ones — Boutique du Vampyre, The Mortuary, New Orleans Pharmacy Museum and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of New Orleans they'd never find on their own.
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Boutique du Vampyre
Opened in 2003, this is billed as one of the world's first vampire-themed boutiques, tucked into a half-addre…
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The Mortuary
An 1872 Grand Victorian mansion that the P.J. McMahon & Sons undertaking firm ran as a funeral home from 1923…
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New Orleans Pharmacy Museum
Set in an 1823 apothecary built for Louis Dufilho Jr., often cited as America's first licensed pharmacist, th…
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Museum of Death
The New Orleans branch of the cult Los Angeles original packs an unflinching collection into a handful of roo…
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Dark Matter Oddities & Artisan Collective
A French Quarter shop where full-sized taxidermy, articulated skeletons, and wet specimens share shelves with…
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The Shop: Oddities at Unique NOLA
A cluttered French Quarter store that's part hoodoo supply, part taxidermy-as-art, part jumble of random ephe…
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The Bywater Museum of Unnatural History
A tiny, one-of-a-kind cabinet-of-curiosities museum (it kept its old Bywater name after relocating to Mandevi…
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House of Dance & Feathers
A backyard museum of New Orleans street culture founded in 2003 by Ronald W. Lewis, documenting Mardi Gras In…
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St. Roch Chapel and Ex-Voto Room
Inside this 1870s shrine, built after a priest's congregation survived yellow fever, a small side room sits b…