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Message: <blockquote data-quote="toberane" data-source="post: 2197831" data-attributes="member: 4968">I've been there several times, usually in the spring or summer, though.  Most of the time I spent there was in the French Quarter, of course, but some of the neatest places in the Quarter are the less touristy places.  There are really cool coffee shops that have indoor/outdoor courtyards attached, and a lot of little hole in the wall bars of every flavor (cajun, irish pub, blues/jazz).  Of course, for the big places, there's Jackson Square (which is what most people see in movies of New Orleans), Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau's tomb, and the riveerside marketplace where you can buy darn near anything.One of the most interesting places in New Orleans is the LaLaurie Mansion, the home of a wealthy French socialite in the 1830's who, it was discovered, had brutally tortured and murdered dozens of her family's slaves in the locked attic.Other sights commonly associated with New Orleans are the extensive graveyards filled with above-ground mausoleums.  My Aunt, who lived there for several years, explained that the dead were buried in above-ground concrete tombs because, in a city on the floodplain of the Mississippi River, it wasn't a good idea to bury the bodies underground.  One good flood and the corpses were uprooted and would float right down the middle of the street.  The graveyards are beautiful, though, filled with historic statuary and gothic architecture.  They are also very dangerous, home to muggers and thieves who aren't afraid to strike day or night at tourists who wander in to see the sights of the graveyards alone.Outside the city are plantations that date back 150-200 years in some cases.  I quick search of the internet will revela a num ber of theswe, and the occasional ghost stories that are associated with them as well.There is a lot more, but these are my initial memories of New Orleans.  It has been 4 or 5 years since I've been down there myself.</blockquote>

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