The 10 Most Iconic Landmarks in New Orleans
10 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Bourbon Street
Bourbon St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Bourbon Street is the most famous party street in America — a 13-block strip of neon signs, open doors, live music, and the kind of uninhibited public drinking that is illegal in almost every other American city but is not only legal here but expected.
Café Du Monde
800 Decatur St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Café Du Monde has been serving beignets and café au lait from the same French Market location since 1862, and it has never closed — not for holidays, not for hurricanes (it reopened after Katrina within weeks), and not for the small matter of the menu having exactly three items: beignets, café au lait, and orange juice.
Commander's Palace
1403 Washington Ave, Garden District, New Orleans, 70130, United States
Commander's Palace is the most important restaurant in New Orleans — a Garden District institution that has been defining Creole fine dining since 1880 and has launched more famous chefs than any culinary school in America.
Garden District
St Charles Ave at Washington Ave, New Orleans, LA 70130
The Garden District is where the Americans built their mansions after the Louisiana Purchase — a deliberate statement of wealth and taste aimed at the Creole establishment in the French Quarter who considered the English-speaking newcomers to be uncultured barbarians.
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.
Preservation Hall
726 St Peter St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Preservation Hall is a crumbling, un-air-conditioned room on St.
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 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.
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