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Roosevelt Mall
Step into a slice of New Deal history at Roosevelt Mall, a stunning avenue lined with ancient live oaks that whispers tales of 1930s American ambition. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt himself dedicated this iconic sp…
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New Orleans Botanical Garden
Discover New Orleans Botanical Garden, where Art Deco elegance meets horticultural artistry in one of America's rarest surviving examples of 1930s garden design. Three visionaries collaborated on this masterpiece: archit…
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Duelling Oak
Stand before the weathered Duelling Oak, a 300-year-old witness to New Orleans' most violent and absurd chapter. Between 1834 and 1844, this ancient tree became the scene of nearly constant dueling, where honor-obsessed …
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Preservation Hall
Enter Preservation Hall and step back into the revolutionary moment when New Orleans jazz nearly disappeared, saved only by a small group of dedicated activists who believed this music was worth fighting for. Founded in …
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New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
Step beyond Hollywood misconceptions and enter the New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum, where Marie Laveau's legacy comes alive through authentic artifacts and scholarly interpretation. Founded in 1972 by Charles M. Gando…
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Le Petit Theatre
Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carré represents something nearly extinct in American culture: pure community theater born from genuine artistic passion rather than commercial ambition. Founded in 1916 by amateur theater enthu…
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Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar stands as one of New Orleans' most intoxicating blends of history, legend, and mystery, housed in a building constructed during Spanish colonial rule, likely in the 1770s, making it one of t…
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St. Louis Cathedral
St. Louis Cathedral stands as the oldest continuously used cathedral in the entire United States, sharing this distinction only with the Royal Presidio Chapel in California, representing over 300 years of uninterrupted C…
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Jackson Square
Jackson Square, the historic heart of New Orleans' French Quarter, has anchored the city's civic and spiritual identity since its founding in 1718 as Place d'Armes under French rule and Plaza de Armas under Spanish domin…
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The Presbytère
The Presbytère, built in 1791 as a matching structure for the nearby Cabildo, stands as one of the nation's most precise examples of colonial Spanish architecture, yet its significance lies far more in its contemporary m…
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Old Ursuline Convent Museum
The Old Ursuline Convent Museum at 1100 Chartres Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans is the oldest surviving building in the Mississippi River Valley, completed in 1752. It was the home of the Ursuline nuns, who …
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Joan of Arc, Maid of Orleans
The Joan of Arc statue on Decatur Street is a gilded bronze of the young French heroine on horseback, standing at the Place de France beside the French Market in the New Orleans French Quarter. It was given to the city b…
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Toulouse Theatre
Toulouse Theatre stands at 615 Toulouse Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, a city where live performance, from jazz trios to brass bands and burlesque, is part of everyday life. It is an easy stop for anyone wh…
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Lafayette Square
Lafayette Square is a public park in the Central Business District of New Orleans, just off St Charles Avenue. Laid out in the late 1780s, it grew into the civic heart of the city's American sector and still sits beside …
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Benjamin Franklin Monument
The Benjamin Franklin Monument is a memorial to the American statesman, printer and inventor, found at 668 N Maestri Pl in New Orleans. It is a quick, easy stop that works best as one point on a longer walk through the s…
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Octavia Art Gallery New Orleans
Octavia Art Gallery is an art gallery at 700 Magazine Street in the Warehouse District of New Orleans, a neighbourhood of old brick buildings a short walk from the Mississippi River. It is a good place to pause and read …
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Armstrong Park
Louis Armstrong Park is a public park in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, just across Rampart Street from the French Quarter. It honors the trumpeter and singer who grew up in the city's streets and helped shape ja…
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Congo Square
Congo Square is a small public space in Louis Armstrong Park, on the edge of the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, where enslaved and free people of African descent gathered on Sundays to trade, sing, drum and dance. It…
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New Orleans Jazz Museum
The New Orleans Jazz Museum is a museum of jazz history housed in the Old U.S. Mint at 400 Esplanade Avenue, on the edge of the French Quarter in New Orleans. The building is a landmark in its own right: it struck United…
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New Orleans Pharmacy Museum
The New Orleans Pharmacy Museum is a small museum at 514 Chartres Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans. It occupies the former shop of Louis J. Dufilho Jr., generally called the first licensed pharmacist in the Un…
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Reverend Zombie's House Of Voodoo
Reverend Zombie's House of Voodoo is a voodoo shop at 725 St Peter Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans. It sits across the street from Preservation Hall, in a building tied to a local ghost legend about a carpent…
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Canal Street
Canal Street is the wide avenue in New Orleans, Louisiana, that marks the upriver edge of the French Quarter. It takes its name from a canal that was planned along this line but never dug. For a long time it was the boun…
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Jackson Brewery
Jackson Brewery is a large brick former brewery on Decatur Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans. It made Jax beer for more than eighty years and now stands as a riverfront landmark of shops, restaurants and reside…
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Galatoire's
Galatoire's is a historic Creole restaurant at the heart of Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Founded by a Frenchman in 1905, it is one of the city's best-loved old dining rooms and a fixture of local …
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Hermann-Grima House
The Hermann-Grima House is a historic house museum at 820 St. Louis Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Built in 1831, it is one of the best preserved homes from the early American period in the neighbourhood, a…
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Ghosts of New Orleans: Underworld
86 min · EN · ES
Places on this quest: Jackson Square · Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar
New Orleans French Quarter: The Lost Treasure
131 min · EN · ES
Places on this quest: Jackson Square · St. Louis Cathedral
Murder Mystery: Death in the Shadows in New Orleans
90 min · EN · DE · ES · FR · RO · IT
Places on this quest: Joan of Arc, Maid of Orleans · Old Ursuline Convent Museum
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