The 100-ft.-high obelisk with 122 interior steps and a viewing platform at the Chalmette Battlefield honors the troops of the Battle of New Orleans. The annual Memorial Day ceremony at the Chalmette National Cemetery is set for 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 25.

Packed with military artifacts, some dating back to the Revolutionary War, the recently renovated museum focuses on the history of the Louisiana National Guard.

Built in 1919, The Victory Arch commemorates 9th Ward residents who served or died in World War I.

Built in 1884, this Lee Circle monument to Confederate General Robert E. Lee is said to face north 'cause, ahem, you never turn your back on a Yankee.

The Jefferson Memorial Arch, built in 1923, lists the names of Confederate and World War I soldiers from Jefferson Parish. It has since been dedicated to all JP veterans.

Built in 1943, this is the first statue of a military woman erected in the United States. It was rededicated in 1966 to all of the women Marines who serve their country.

Dedicated in 1939 and originally located at N. Claiborne and Canal St., the statue commemorates the American soldiers who fought in the Spanish-American War.

On the Poydras St. side of the Super Dome, the life-sized bronze sculpture went up in 1984 to pay tribute to those who served in the Vietnam War.

The oldest continually active museum in the state, the Civil War Museum in Confederate Memorial Hall has the second largest collection of Confederate Civil War items in the world.

On the Veterans Memorial Blvd. neutral ground is the Korean War Memorial, a Purple Heart memorial, and honoring the former prisoners of war in Jefferson Parish, a POW/MIA memorial.