Abita Mystery House, Abita Springs, Louisiana

The Abita Mystery House, located in Abita Springs, Louisiana, is an absolute MUST SEE if you love funky, kitschy stuff as much as I do.  I was in there for a really, really long time because it's huge and there is so much to see and take pics of.  Poor Russell finally came looking for me after I was gone a good hour or more!  

There are loads of rooms packed to the rafters with all kinds of cool stuff.  Signs, paint by numbers, bottles, trinkets, toys, etc. 

A lot of the displays are interactive when you press a button on the display.  The figures move around and so forth.

The proprietor has made a ton of those hand painted, and rather amusing, signs you see here and there.

Like this one! 

Interactive New Orleans funeral.  The crypt on the left opened to reveal the skeleton while others danced and the musicians moved.

This one was one of my faves.  That's a tornado that spins and the other items move around and get caught in the storm.  There's even a trailer that has the whole wall lift off! 

The Shard House is made of tens of thousands of bits of glass and pottery.  

One of the many hybrid 'animals'.  

Bathroom of the Shard House.

Giant 'Bassigator'

The famous 'Thirty Two Foot Alligator'.....with 32 feet.  

I could've made 3 separate posts of all my pics but this is the gist.  Go see the Abita Mystery House.  You won't regret it.  It's only a few miles from Covington and not all that far from NOLA.  

When in Louisiana......

Louisiana isn't that far of a drive from Biloxi so it makes a very easy day trip.  Again, the weather was insanely bad but we powered through.  One of my Yodaville friends was meeting us for lunch and she had to drive over the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in that weather!  I'm glad we drove the Causeway on a nice day a few years ago! 

We met up at DiMartino's Restaurant, in Covington.  

We HAD to get muffulettas!  They are SO GOOD! I wish they sold muffuletta bread at home.  We'd eaten here the last time too.  

Quick photo shoot with our babies before she had to head home, as the weather was getting worse with every minute! 

After lunch, Russell took me to the Abita Mystery House (separate post after this one), and then to the Covington Cafe du Monde, since there was no way I was going to the one in NOLA.  I was stoked that this opened!  I FINALLY got to try their famous beignets!  

These are served fresh and piping hot and oh my god are they good.  When they are hot.  Still being full from lunch I only had about one and a half on the 90 minute drive back to Biloxi.  Once we got up to the room and I realized there was no microwave in the room, they were stone cold and hard as rocks.  Eating them fresh is definitely key with beignets. 

Some of our Travels, in No Particular Order

Thousand Islands, New York 2022

Casey, Illinois, home of the World's Biggest Things 2022

Biloxi Beach, Mississippi 2021

Hammond Castle, Gloucester, MA 2022

Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, Louisiana 2021 (New Orleans in distance)

Daisy Airgun Museum and World's Largest Airgun, Rogers, Arkansas 2021

This one is in my top ten best things ever:  The old courthouse museum in Monroeville, Alabama.  This is the town that inspired To Kill a Mockingbird.  An exact replica was built on the set in CA.  I went to Harper Lee's grave, explored the town and it was Christmas time so it was extra magical. 2021

University of Notre Dame Campus, South Bend, Indiana (touchdown Jesus) 2023

Yellowstone Bear World, Rexburg, Idaho 2023

Mt. Rushmore, Keystone, South Dakota 2024

Chimney Rock, Bayard, Nebraska 2024

PEZ Visitor Center & Museum, Orange, Connecticut 2024