The fascinating city of New Orleans has seen its share of hard times, and even after Katrina’s destruction in 2005 and the steepest challenges it has gone through, there’s still something about the city that makes it America’s most unique, authentic and alluring destination. With such an abundance of great music, spectacular food, and amazing tourist attractions, visiting New Orleans is a fascinating experience nobody could resist.
St Claude Arts District/SCAD
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- City: New Orleans
St Claude Arts District/SCAD is new Orleans newest & hottest arts district thats not your usual tourist-centric arts destination. A true "only in New Orlean...
Infrogmation St Roch Cemeteries
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- City: New Orleans
This cemetery has above-ground crypts that rival many of New Orleans' more famous cemeteries, along with artistic stations of the cross. The old cemetery chapel and shrine of cures, however, are what ...
St Roch Market
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- City: New Orleans
This building at St. Claude Avenue & St. Roch is an historic landmark. Before Katrina it was a bit on the ramshackle side, but still busy specializing in fresh seafood; the city's second oldest fu...
Steamboat houses
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- City: New Orleans
A visitor attraction long before Katrina, these over-the-top ornate Victorian wooden houses in steamboat-baroque style are on the high ground of the least affected portion of the Lower 9th. Take a loo...
Sweet Lorraine's Jazz Club
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- City: New Orleans
Sweet Lorraine's Jazz Club is situated just across St. Claude from the back edge of Old Marigny; between Pauger and Touro Streets. Noted neighborhood jazz venue...
Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden
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- City: New Orleans
Based adjacent to the New Orleans Botanical Garden, Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden is dedicated to priceless scul...
The Cabildo
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- City: New Orleans
The Cabildo, based at the Jackson Square, is a history museum that long served as the seat of the municipal government during the Spanish colonial period. The museum exhibits collections highlighting ...
The Great War Memorial
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- City: New Orleans
The Great War Memorial is the first of it kind erected at the end of WWI, this monument pays tribute the fallen residents of the 9th Ward. It was one of the top...
The Spellcaster Lodge
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- City: New Orleans
Home of the Amazing Mr. Quintron, Miss Pussycat, and the Drum Buddy workshops. Only open a handful of nights in the year, but this is home to some wild bohemian...
University of New Orleans
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- City: New Orleans
The University of New Orleans Arena is at a separate location at the lake end of Franklin Avenue. The modern campus has little to see and there is little reason...
Spatms West End
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- City: New Orleans
West End is a park with a marina at the end of West End Boulevard. (The seafood restaurants and bars which used to surround it were all destroyed by Katrina.) Getting there is a slight trick if you ar...
William Franz Elementary School Building
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- City: New Orleans
One of the iconic images of the American Civil Rights Movement era is of the brave little Black girl Ruby Bridges walking int...
