New Orleans Attractions
Explore the French Quarter, Garden District, and beyond with audio tours full of scandals, secrets, and surprisingly true stories about the Big Easy.
Must-See in New Orleans
Cafe Du Monde
A Civil War–era coffee stand that accidentally created Vietnamese-American coffee culture.
Congo Square
Where jazz was born — the only legal drum circle in all of slave-era America.
Hotel Monteleone & Carousel Bar
A revolving bar where American literature drank — and where Capote lied about being born.
Jackson Square
A statue built by a man who'd never seen one, honoring a battle fought after the war ended.
Jackson Square & Pontalba Buildings
Built by a woman with eight fingers, bullets in her chest, and a shotgun for the mayor.
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar
A pirate bar named after a pirate who was never here — and who saved the country.
Landmarks
Cafe Du Monde
A Civil War–era coffee stand that accidentally created Vietnamese-American coffee culture.
Hotel Monteleone & Carousel Bar
A revolving bar where American literature drank — and where Capote lied about being born.
Jackson Square
A statue built by a man who'd never seen one, honoring a battle fought after the war ended.
Jackson Square & Pontalba Buildings
Built by a woman with eight fingers, bullets in her chest, and a shotgun for the mayor.
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar
A pirate bar named after a pirate who was never here — and who saved the country.
Marie Laveau's Tomb
The Voodoo Queen's tomb — where the X marks are completely made up.
Preservation Hall
A Wharton grad on his honeymoon followed some musicians and accidentally saved jazz.
Saint Louis Cathedral
Three churches on one spot — the first two burned down because nobody rang the bells.
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1
Over 100,000 bodies in one city block — and Nicolas Cage's mystery pyramid.
The Cabildo
Where America doubled in size for three cents an acre.
The Cabildo
Where a shoemaker from Treme challenged segregation sixty-three years before Rosa Parks.
The Old Ursuline Convent
Eleven nuns crossed an ocean and built a colony's entire social infrastructure.
Bourbon Street
Named for a beheaded dynasty, powered by surplus wartime rum.
Brevard-Clapp House
See that house with the Ionic columns on the first floor and the Corinthian ones on the second? That's the Brevard-Clapp House — nine thousand square
Buckner Mansion
You're looking at forty-eight columns.
Colonel Short's Villa
You're looking at the most photographed fence in New Orleans — cast-iron cornstalks with morning glories climbing through them, catching the afternoon
Commander's Palace
That turquoise-and-white Victorian with the striped awnings — that's Commander's Palace.
Frenchmen Street
You've just crossed Esplanade Avenue into the Faubourg Marigny.
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1
You're standing at one of the Cities of the Dead — that's what they call the cemeteries in New Orleans — and once you understand how they work, you'll
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar
That building on the corner of Bourbon and Saint Philip — the one that looks like it's been slowly returning to the earth? That's Lafitte's Blacksmith
Payne-Strachan House
See that granite marker on the front lawn? The one that looks like a tombstone? Read it if you can get close enough.
Peychaud's Pharmacy
You're on Royal Street near the four hundred block.
St. Charles Avenue Streetcar
You're standing next to the oldest continuously operating streetcar line in the world.
The Carousel Bar at Hotel Monteleone
See that building taking up half the block on Royal Street? That's the Hotel Monteleone.
The Old Absinthe House
You're on Bourbon Street.
The Sazerac Bar
You're looking at the Roosevelt Hotel.
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