Haunted things to do in New Orleans
Looking for haunted places & dark-history spots in New Orleans? These 8 are the genuinely strange ones — Beauregard-Keyes House, St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, Hotel Monteleone and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of New Orleans they'd never find on their own.
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Beauregard-Keyes House
An 1826 raised center-hall mansion that Confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard rented after the Civil War and…
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St. Louis Cemetery No. 1
The oldest surviving cemetery in New Orleans, opened in 1789, a dense maze of above-ground tombs just outside…
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Hotel Monteleone
A Beaux-Arts grand hotel founded in 1886 by Sicilian cobbler Antonio Monteleone and still run by his family,…
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LaLaurie Mansion (exterior)
The Empire-style mansion at Royal and Governor Nicholls is tied to one of the city's most genuinely horrific…
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Chauvin Sculpture Garden
An outsider-art environment on the bayou where former bricklayer Kenny Hill, working alone from 1990 until he…
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Metairie Cemetery (Lake Lawn Metairie)
Built atop the former 1838 Metairie Race Course, this sprawling cemetery has the city's largest collection of…
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Holt Cemetery
A rare in-ground potter's field, established in 1879, where most graves were handmade by families rather than…
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Cajun Pride Swamp Tours (Manchac Swamp)
This privately owned wildlife refuge sits in the Manchac Swamp about 25 miles from New Orleans, where flat-bo…