adding this to my list of "when I get back to NOLA..."

New Orleans Museum of Death.

A stunning array of taxidermy, as well as a skeleton of an alligator chomping down on a human leg bone, An assortment of Manson family photographs, An original painting by serial killer John Wayne Gacy, The Theater of Death, situated in the back of the museum, with its walls adorned with newspaper front pages recording momentous and tragic moments in American and world history, The early history of embalming, A real shrunken head, An intriguing set of true crime photographs from the first half of the 20th century