THE BEST Sights and Attractions in New Orleans

🏛️ Sights and Attractions in New Orleans

• French Quarter — The French Quarter, also known as the Vieux Carré, is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans. After New Orleans was founded in 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, the city developed around the Vieux Carré, a central square. The district is more commonly called the French Quarter today, or simply "The Quarter", related to changes in the city with American immigration after the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. Most of the extant historic buildings were constructed either in the late 18th century, during the city's period of Spanish rule, or were built during the first half of the 19th century, after U.S. purchase and statehood.
• Bourbon Street — is a historic street in the heart of the French Quarter of New Orleans. Extending twelve blocks from Canal Street to Esplanade Avenue, Bourbon Street hosts many bars, restaurants and strip clubs.
• Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall is a legendary jazz venue on St. Peter Street in the French Quarter, founded in 1961 to preserve traditional New Orleans jazz, offering intimate nightly performances with no amplification.
• National WWII Museum — The National WWII Museum is a military history museum in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, on Andrew Higgins Drive between Camp Street and Magazine Street. The museum focuses on the contribution made by the United States to Allied victory in World War II. It was founded in 2000 as the National D-Day Museum and was later designated by the U.S. Congress as America's official National WWII Museum in 2003. The museum is an affiliated museum of the Smithsonian Institution as part of its outreach program. The museum saw 406,251 visitors in 2010 and nearly 700,000 in fiscal year 2016.
• Frenchmen Street — Frenchmen Street is a street in the 7th Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana. It is best known for the three-block section in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood which since the 1980s has developed as the center of many popular live-music venues, including Cafe Negril, Favela Chic, Vas
• The Cabildo — , originally called "Casa Capitular", is a historical building in New Orleans, Louisiana. Originally the seat of Spanish colonial city hall, the building now forms part of the Louisiana State Museum. It is located along Jackson Square, adjacent to St. Louis Cathedral.
• New Orleans Museum of Art — The New Orleans Museum of Art is the oldest fine arts museum in the city of New Orleans. It is situated within City Park, a short distance from the intersection of Carrollton Avenue and Esplanade Avenue, and near the terminus of the "Canal Street - City Park" streetcar line. It was established in 1911 as the Delgado Museum of Art.
• Congo Square — Congo Square is an open space, now within Louis Armstrong Park, which is located in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, just across Rampart Street north of the French Quarter. The square is famous for its influence on the history of African American music, especially jazz. It was named after the large number of Bakongo slaves, that gave rise much of its cultural influences.
• Algiers Point — is a location on the Lower Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana. In river pilotage, Algiers Point is one of the many points of land around which the river flows—albeit a significant one. People from Algiers Point are known as Algierines, or Algerines. During
• St. Louis Cathedral — America’s oldest continuously operating Catholic cathedral, distinguished by its triple steeples overlooking Jackson Square since 1850.
• Jackson Square — A historic 2.5-acre public park framed by St. Louis Cathedral, the Cabildo, and Presbytère, serving as the cultural and artistic center of the French Quarter.
• Garden District — An opulent 19th-century neighborhood renowned for its antebellum mansions, ancient oak trees, and the famous St. Charles Avenue streetcar line.
• Audubon Park — A 350-acre urban paradise featuring ancient live oaks, a picturesque lagoon, golf course, and walking paths along the Mississippi River in Uptown.
• City Park — One of the largest urban parks in America at 1,300 acres, featuring ancient oak trees, sculpture gardens, and the historic Carousel Gardens Amusement Park.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — New Orleans’ oldest above-ground cemetery established in 1789, famous for its elaborate wall vaults and the tomb of voodoo queen Marie Laveau.
• New Orleans Jazz Museum — Housed in the historic Old U.S. Mint building, celebrating the birth of jazz through instruments, recordings, and live performances.