Dead history
New Orleans Cemetery & Burial History Tour
Tombs above ground in rows, like a small dense town. The reason is drainage.
New Orleans2h
City dossier 003 · Louisiana
New Orleans
The rare place where the folklore and the municipal record mostly agree. The tombs are above ground for drainage reasons. The pharmacy museum is horrifying because nineteenth-century pharmacy was horrifying. The best guides are historians who happen to be good company.
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After dark2Boat required2Dead history4Deeply regional3Haunted-adjacent1Local legend3Probably a story1Questionable weather1Strange animals2Weird museum1Wet and inconvenient2
Haunted-adjacent
Dark Side of New Orleans: French Quarter Ghost Tour
A continuous local tradition rather than a costume, and the better guides treat it that way.
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New Orleans1h 30m
Boat required
Louisiana Swamp Night Boat Tour
A flat boat, a spotlight, and a great many eyes at the waterline reflecting it back.
New Orleans3h
Weird museum
Historic Pharmacy & Medical History Museum Visit
A nineteenth-century apothecary, preserved. Horrifying because the medicine was.
New Orleans1h
Dead history
New Orleans City and Cemetery Tour with Garden District Stroll
Above-ground tombs on one side of the street, cast-iron balconies on the other, both paid for by the same money.
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New Orleans3h
Strange animals
New Orleans Swamp and Bayou Alligator Tour
Alligators, at the waterline, from a flat boat. Ask the operator whether they feed them.
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New Orleans1h 15m–4h
Deeply regional
Jazz Funeral & Burial Tradition Walk
A funeral tradition with a brass band in it, explained by people whose families kept it going.
New Orleans1h 45m
Field conditions
Before you go
Several historic cemeteries can only be entered with a licensed guide. That is why the tour exists.
Heat and humidity are the real difficulty from May to September. Evening departures are not just for atmosphere.
Water tours launch from outside the city. Check how transfer is handled.
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