Central Grocery & Deli
923 Decatur St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Central Grocery is a single-counter Italian deli on Decatur Street that has been making the same sandwich since 1906 — and that sandwich, the muffuletta, is one of the foundational foods of New Orleans.
Congo Square
835 N Rampart St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Congo Square is the most important piece of ground in the history of American music — the open space in what is now Louis Armstrong Park where enslaved Africans were permitted to gather on Sunday afternoons to drum, dance, sing, and trade, preserving the West African musical traditions that would eventually become jazz, blues, funk, and virtually every form of popular music that America has produced.
Jackson Square
700 Decatur St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Jackson Square is the beating heart of the French Quarter — a formal garden square framed by the triple spires of St.
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1
1416 Washington Ave, Garden District, New Orleans, 70130, United States
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Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar
941 Bourbon St, French Quarter, New Orleans, 70116, United States
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is one of the oldest structures in the French Quarter — a crumbling brick-between-posts building from around 1772 that legend says was used as a front for the pirate Jean Lafitte's smuggling operation.
New Orleans Jazz Museum
400 Esplanade Ave, New Orleans, LA 70116
The New Orleans Jazz Museum is housed in the Old US Mint — the only building in America to have served as both a US and a Confederate mint — and it tells the story of jazz from its origins in Congo Square and Storyville to its global spread, through instruments, recordings, photographs, and the kind of personal artifacts that make a music genre feel like a community.
Old Ursuline Convent
1100 Chartres St, French Quarter, New Orleans, 70116, United States
The Old Ursuline Convent is the oldest building in the Mississippi Valley and the only surviving example of French Colonial architecture in the French Quarter — which makes it the only building in the 'French' Quarter that is actually French.
St. Charles Streetcar
Canal St & Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA 70130
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St. Louis Cathedral
615 Pere Antoine Alley, New Orleans, LA 70116
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St. Louis Cemetery No. 1
425 Basin St, Iberville Project, New Orleans, 70112, United States
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The Cabildo
701 Chartres St, New Orleans, LA 70116
The Cabildo is the building where the Louisiana Purchase was signed on December 20, 1803 — the real estate deal that doubled the size of the United States, transferred 828,000 square miles from France to America for $15 million (roughly four cents an acre), and made New Orleans an American city almost by accident.
The National WWII Museum
945 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130
The National WWII Museum is consistently ranked among the top museums in the world — and it's in New Orleans because this is where Andrew Higgins built the landing craft that carried Allied troops onto the beaches of Normandy, North Africa, and the Pacific islands.
The Presbytère
751 Chartres St, New Orleans, LA 70116
The Presbytère is the mirror twin of the Cabildo on the other side of St.
Tremé Neighbourhood
N Claiborne Ave at St Philip St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Tremé is the oldest African-American neighbourhood in the United States — a community that has existed since the late 18th century, when free people of colour in colonial New Orleans established homes, businesses, and cultural institutions in the area just north of the French Quarter.
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