Voodoo queens, axe murderers, and unmarked graves in the French Quarter. 13 haunted stops through New Orleans. 3 free.
On April 10, 1834, a fire at the LaLaurie Mansion on Royal Street revealed enslaved people chained and tortured in the attic—Delphine LaLaurie fled to Paris that night and never returned. That single address anchors the most haunted places in New Orleans, but the French Quarter holds 13 stops worth of horror. Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen buried in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, still draws offerings to her disputed tomb. The Old Ursuline Convent—oldest building in the Mississippi Valley, built 1727—keeps its third-floor shutters sealed with blessed nails; 1970s researchers found scratch marks on the inside. From Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop (1770s, still serving by candlelight) to the Bourbon Orleans Hotel's sixth-floor apparitions, this free self-guided walking tour maps the real crime scenes, epidemics, and unquiet dead of America's most haunted city.
The oldest building in the Mississippi Valley stands behind iron gates on Chartres Street. The Ursuline nuns arrived from Rouen in 1727 to run a hospi...
One block up from the convent, the raised Greek Revival house built for auctioneer Joseph LeCarpentier in 1826 carries the names of its two most famou...
This ornate mansion with its elaborate ironwork galleries was built in 1836 for a dentist named Joseph Coulon Gardette. But its infamy comes from the ...
The above-ground tombs — necessary because the water table sits inches below the surface — create a maze of whitewashed crypts that locals call Cities...
This hotel began as the Théâtre d'Orléans in 1817, the most important opera house in antebellum America. The adjacent Orleans Ballroom hosted the infa...
Socialite Delphine LaLaurie and her physician husband Louis built this elegant Royal Street mansion in 1832. She was known for her elaborate parties a...
Antonio Monteleone, a Sicilian cobbler, bought a small hotel on Royal Street in 1886. His family has run it ever since — one of the only family-owned ...
On the corner of St. Peter and Chartres, one of America's oldest community theaters operates from a Spanish Colonial building that incorporates a stru...
This square has been the center of New Orleans since the French laid it out in 1721 as the Place d'Armes — the military parade ground. Public executio...
In the heart of what was once Storyville — New Orleans' legalized red-light district from 1897 to 1917 — May Bailey ran one of the most successful bro...
The oldest bar in America still serving drinks operates by candlelight in a soft-brick building from the 1770s — there is no electric lighting in the ...
Louis J. Dufilho Jr. became the first licensed pharmacist in America in 1816, and this Chartres Street building became the nation's first licensed pha...
The building was constructed in 1798 and became a bar around 1836, earning its name from the absinthe fountain that Cayetano Ferrer installed after ta...
The New Orleans ghost tour includes 13 documented haunted locations covering 165 years of documented history.
The first 3 stops are completely free — no account required. To unlock all 13 stops, a History Nearby premium subscription is $4.99/month or $49.99/year.
No. This is a self-guided walking tour. Each stop includes the address, a map pin, and the full haunting story. Walk at your own pace, start anytime, and take any route you like.
Plan for approximately 2.5 hours. This accounts for walking between stops and reading each haunting story. You can also split it across multiple evenings.
The most visited stop on our New Orleans tour is Old Ursuline Convent at 1100 Chartres St, New Orleans, LA 70116, dating back to 1751.
3 stops free in New Orleans. No guide, no schedule — walk at your own pace after dark.
Last updated February 22, 2026. Researched by the History Nearby editorial team.