The bright-orange Healing Center is a sort of warehouse of all things organic, spiritual, New Age and consciousness-raising. Inside, you'll find yoga studios, performance spaces, a sustainable food co-op, and a central entrance hall that houses large voodoo shrines that are utilized by local adherents of the religion.


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1. Press Street Gardens

0.34 MILES

The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts runs this plot of land as part of its culinary education program. You'll find wandering chickens, placid goats…

2. Washington Square Park

0.38 MILES

Also known as ‘Marigny Green,' this park is a popular spot for locals to play with their dogs, toss Frisbees and, based on the frequent smell, smoke…

3. Plessy v Ferguson Plaque

0.39 MILES

This plaque marks the site where Homer Plessy, in a carefully orchestrated act of civil disobedience, tried to board a whites-only train car. That action…

4. Palace Market

0.43 MILES

Independent artists and artisans line this alleyway market, which has built a reputation as one of the better spots in town to find a unique gift to take…

5. Art Garden

0.43 MILES

Art Garden is an arts-bazaar space filled with painters working on their projects while you shop. It's a good spot to find unique or limited-edition work…

6. Frenchmen Street

0.47 MILES

The ‘locals' Bourbon St’ is how Frenchmen St is usually described to those who want to know where New Orleanians listen to music. The predictable result?…

7. St Roch Cemetery

0.48 MILES

Named for St Roch, a semilegendary figure whose prayers supposedly averted the Black Death, this cemetery became popular with Catholics during yellow…

8. Clouet Gardens

0.53 MILES

This formerly empty lot has been transformed by its Bywater neighbors into a neat little park filled with murals and generally appealing weirdness…