1725 St. Roch Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70117
29.975448,-90.052024
As we have just finished discussing the Crescent City's oldest and most well-known cemetery, it is only fitting that we jump straight into what many would say is the city's strangest cemetery. For a city that is known as the place to go to expose your breasts and dress like the members of the Village People without being looked at twice, in order for a plain old cemetery to be called strange, it must be one hell of a place to visit!
As I mentioned, it is a common practice for mourners to leave small trinkets at grave sites as a sign of remembrance and affection. Especially, when the Voodoo religion is involved, certain Lwa, or Gods, are honored with items such as rum, cigars, hard candy and money. However, I must say, I have never heard of prosthetic limbs and plaster casts of body parts being left behind as a sign of devotion and faith. Such is the case with the St. Roch Cemetery and Chapel, several blocks east of the French Quarter.