"I try to preserve the legacy of voodoo," says Gandolfo with a portrait of voodoo queen Marie Laveau. Tyrone Turner The Voodoo Museum "is an entry point for people who are curious, who want to see ...

The New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum can be found tucked between Bourbon and Royal streets, and includes the history, folklore and rituals of Voodoo. The museum has been open since 1972 and is ...

The small room is dark and stuffy. The air is pungent with the dusty scent of old things. Against one wall is an altar filled with plaster saints, saint cards, white tapers and red votive candles. In ...

The touristy Marie Laveau’s House of Voodoo sells a host of items, including Amazonian fish scales for endurance and Marie Laveau Zippo lighters. (Photo by Norma Meyer) Voodoo priest Papa Zaar ...

NEW ORLEANS - When the zombie apocalypse comes, I am ready. I know how to make them go away. You learn the darnedest things in New Orleans. I spent a rainy, foggy afternoon in a French Quarter coffee ...

John T. Martin, a former manager of the New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum who was known for his fondness of pythons, died Nov. 25 of a heart attack in his apartment above the French Quarter museum.

As one walks into the Voodoo Spiritual Temple, the sweet scent of incense fills the small French Quarter shop cramped with voodoo dolls, gris-gris bags and charms. Deeper into the shop, past the ...