10 Local Spots in New Orleans Tourists Don't Know About
10 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Algiers Point & the Canal Street Ferry
Canal St Ferry Terminal, New Orleans, LA 70130
The Canal Street Ferry is the best free experience in New Orleans — a 15-minute ride across the Mississippi River to Algiers Point that provides the only view of the French Quarter skyline from the water, and it costs absolutely nothing.
Crescent Park
New Orleans, United States
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French Market
1235 N Peters St, French Quarter, New Orleans, 70116, United States
The French Market is the oldest continuously operating public market in the United States — a six-block stretch of covered stalls along the Mississippi riverfront that has been selling food, goods, and whatever else New Orleans needs since 1791.
Frenchmen Street
Frenchmen St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Frenchmen Street is where New Orleanians go to hear live music — a three-block strip in the Faubourg Marigny neighbourhood that has replaced Bourbon Street as the city's real music scene.
Magazine Street
Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130
Magazine Street is a six-mile commercial corridor running through the Garden District and Uptown that functions as New Orleans' independent shopping spine — a street where locally owned boutiques, galleries, restaurants, and vintage shops outnumber chains by a ratio that most American cities have given up trying to achieve.
Royal Street
Royal St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Royal Street is the elegant side of the French Quarter — a corridor of antique shops, art galleries, and street musicians that runs parallel to Bourbon Street, one block over, and operates in an entirely different register.
St. Charles Streetcar
Canal St & Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA 70130
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The Spotted Cat Music Club
623 Frenchmen St, Marigny, New Orleans, 70116, United States
The Spotted Cat is a tiny Frenchmen Street music club that embodies everything New Orleans jazz is supposed to be — intimate, sweaty, acoustic, and played by musicians who are so good that their refusal to pursue fame in a bigger city feels like an act of civic loyalty.
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.
Willie Mae's Scotch House
2401 Saint Ann St, Treme, New Orleans, 70119, United States
Willie Mae's Scotch House serves what the James Beard Foundation has called 'America's best fried chicken' — a distinction earned by Willie Mae Seaton, who opened the restaurant in 1957 in a small house in Tremé and spent the next five decades perfecting a recipe that involves a wet batter, a hot skillet, and a level of patience that fast-food chains can't replicate.
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