This is a non-walking version of our Currents of History: Tragedy and Triumph on the Banks of the Mississippi tour, designed especially for our mobility-challenged visitors or any guests not wanting to navigate the obstacle courses New Orleans calls sidewalks! We will take the Canal Street Ferry over to Algiers Point and back. This will be ADA accessible.
New Orleans was born of the river, cradled in its bends, nearly drowned in its floods, and forever defined by its pull. Currents of History is an experience that traces the rise, ruin, and resilience of a city sculpted by the Mississippi’s muddy hands.
This is a journey over the River (by taking the Canal Street Ferry), through water—levees, storms, commerce and catastrophe. From the First People, to the French settlers who saw opportunity in the high ground (and ignored the surrounding swampland), to enslaved Africans who labored and resisted along the docks, to the Great Flood and Hurricane Katrina—we follow the river’s wide and winding wake through New Orleans' soul.
This isn’t a disaster tour. It’s a riverine resurrection story.
Told with reverence, grit, and poetic insight, Currents of History is for those who want to understand New Orleans beyond Bourbon Street—through the waterlines etched on buildings and the unbreakable spirit that keeps rising with the tide.
Audience: This tour is appropriate for guests of all ages.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Where: Begins at Canal Street Ferry Terminal
Includes: Historic riverfront walk (Moonwalk), stories of hurricanes, commerce, levees, migration, music, and the people who lived and fought along the banks of America’s most mythic river.

New Orleans doesn’t forget. She may dress up her grief in sequins and song, but the past lingers here like humidity—thick, clinging, undeniable.
Shadows of the French Quarter is not your carnival ghost tour. This is a reckoning through the French Quarter’s haunted heart, where supernatural tales twist around the real bones of tragedy, crime, and resistance. We trace the lingering spirits not just of the dead—but of the silenced, the wronged, and the forgotten.
Yes, we will talk about the infamous LaLaurie Mansion. But you’ll hear what most tours won’t tell you: that Madame Delphine’s and Dr. LaLaurie's true monstrosities were not some Gothic fiction, but the very real, systemic torture of enslaved people. Their horror wasn’t supernatural—it was social, racial, and all too human. And yet, the hauntings there feel all the more powerful because of that truth.
From there, we verbally wander through streets soaked in crime lore, looking into courtyards whispered to be vampire lairs, and homes that breathe sorrow through their walls. We’ll explore true murders whitewashed by polite history, and restless spirits that refuse to be prettied up for tourists.
Told with grit, reverence, and a touch of candlelit poetry, this tour is for those who want to feel the weight of history and mystery pressed into the stones of this city. Not everything that haunts you is dead.
Audience: This tour is for mature audiences only. Guests MUST BE OVER 18 TO ATTEND THIS TOUR. This tour contains story scenes of violence, sexual situations, and very strong language.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
When: Nightfall, when the veil is thinnest
Where: French Quarter (exact location given upon booking)
What You’ll Get: Raw stories. Real hauntings. Reverence for the dead—and truth for the living.

The Night is ruled by supernatural beings, but what about the Day? Most supernatural history tours are nighttime events. We believe the Day is as mesmerizing and fascinating as anything that happens in the darkest hours.
Join us as we tell the French Quarter stories of supernatural history in broad daylight verbally exploring its darkest parts in a completely different light. We will describe images of the houses with macabre histories, “feel the air” of one of the most violent, dangerous streets to ever exist in the US, and find ourselves horrified by the actual history of disease, violence, and inhumanity in the Crescent City.
DayWalkers we will be. Join us for your non-walk on the dark side of the French Quarter in the sunlight!
Audience: This tour is for ages 13+. It may contain story scenes of violence, sexual situations, and strong language.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Where: Location to be disclosed at booking.
Includes: Real atrocities sorted from myths. Famous & infamous "characters" from New Orleans' darkest times. The stories you have heard with the actual horrors revealed.

Before we take the first step onto the cobblestones, we ask you what calls to your spirit. Are you drawn to the velvet shadows of the old courtyards? Hungry for tales of Creole cuisine and the women who ruled their kitchens like queens? Do your ears perk up for the jazz riffs and haunted notes left behind in smoky saloons? Or do you crave the raw, unvarnished truths - of race, class, lust, and power -- that shaped this city behind the lace?

Tell us your leanings:  architecture or voodoo, pirates or poets, brothels or benevolent societies, resistance or revelry.  We'll follow the scent like bloodhounds chasing the story, winding through alleys, pausing at shuttered balconies, and ducking into corners where history still breathes.

This isn't a performance -- it's a conversation.  Your questions guide us. Your energy fuels the route.  No two walks are ever the same, and that's the point. Because the French Quarter doesn't hand out her secrets like trinkets.  She reveals them to those who ask the right way.

Lace up your comfortable shoes, loosen your inhibitions.  The city is listening. What do you want to know?
 How it works:

• You share your interests when booking — specific sites, themes, or even just a mood you want to explore.
• Our expert guide crafts a route tailored to you, combining deep local knowledge with on-the-fly flexibility.
• No rigid script. No overcrowded paths. Just the rare pleasure of seeing New Orleans unfold through your eyes, with a local who loves her every flaw and glory.
  
• PLEASE NOTE: There is no minimum number of guests for this tour. A minimum charge of $200.00 per tour for the first three guests, $64.00 per guest after three.

Audience: This tour is appropriate for people of all ages.
Duration: 2+  hours
Where: We'll discuss that before we meet!
The city always has more than one face. Which one will she show you?

Before we take the first step onto the cobblestones, we ask you what calls to your spirit. Are you drawn to the velvet shadows of the old courtyards? Hungry for tales of Creole cuisine and the women who ruled their kitchens like queens? Do your ears perk up for the jazz riffs and haunted notes left behind in smoky saloons? Or do you crave the raw, unvarnished truths - of race, class, lust, and power -- that shaped this city behind the lace?
Tell us your leanings: architecture or voodoo, pirates or poets, brothels or benevolent societies, resistance or revelry. We'll follow the scent like bloodhounds chasing the story, winding through alleys, pausing at shuttered balconies, and ducking into corners where history still breathes.
This isn't a performance -- it's a conversation. Your questions guide us. Your energy fuels the route. No two walks are ever the same, and that's the point. Because the French Quarter doesn't hand out her secrets like trinkets. She reveals them to those who ask the right way.
Lace up your comfortable shoes, loosen your inhibitions. The city is listening. What do you want to know?
How it works: You share your interests when booking — specific sites, themes, or even just a mood you want to explore. Our expert guide crafts a route tailored to you, combining deep local knowledge with on-the-fly flexibility. No rigid script. No overcrowded paths. Just the rare pleasure of seeing New Orleans unfold through your eyes, with a local who loves her every flaw and glory.
PLEASE NOTE: There is no minimum number of guests for this tour. A minimum charge of $200.00 per tour for the first three guests, $64.00 per guest after three.
Audience: This tour is appropriate for people of all ages.
Duration: 2+ hours
Where: We'll discuss that before we meet!
The city always has more than one face. Which one will she show you?

PLEASE NOTE: Private Tours are $200.00 for the first 4 guests and $50.00 per guest over 4.
We cap our tour groups at 16 guests. If you would like a larger group for a private tour, please call us at 504-233-0584.
New Orleans was born of the river, cradled in its bends, nearly drowned in its floods, and forever defined by its pull. Currents of History is a walking tour that traces the rise, ruin, and resilience of a city sculpted by the Mississippi’s muddy hands.
This is a journey over the River (by taking the Canal Street Ferry), through water—levees, storms, commerce and catastrophe. From the First People, to the French settlers who saw opportunity in the high ground (and ignored the surrounding swampland), to enslaved Africans who labored and resisted along the docks, to the Great Flood and Hurricane Katrina—we follow the river’s wide and winding wake through New Orleans' soul.
This isn’t a disaster tour. It’s a riverine resurrection story.
Told with reverence, grit, and poetic insight, Currents of History is for those who want to understand New Orleans beyond Bourbon Street—through the waterlines etched on buildings and the unbreakable spirit that keeps rising with the tide.
Audience: This tour is appropriate for guests of all ages.
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes
Where: Begins at the Canal Street Ferry Terminal, along the riverfront at the river end of Canal Street.
Includes: Ferry ride. Historic riverfront walk, stories of hurricanes, commerce, levees, migration, music, and the people who lived and fought along the banks of America’s most mythic river.

PLEASE NOTE: Private Tours are $200.00 for the first 4 guests and $50.00 per guest over 4.
We cap our tour groups at 16 guests. If you would like a larger group for a private tour, please call us at 504-233-0584.
They were never just backdrop set pieces. The French Quarter has always belonged to its women—painted or pious, dangerous or divine, sometimes all at once.
Gilded Grit is a walking tour that peels back the layers of lace and legend to reveal the fiercely complex women who shaped the heart of New Orleans. Their names echo like hymns and hexes across the cobblestones: Baroness Pontabla, Elizabeth Werlein, Madame LaLaurie, Marie Laveau, Saint Frances Cabrini, Rose Nicaud—each one bending the city to her will in ways history dares not forget.
We begin with the iron will and ironwork of Micaela Leonarda Antonia de Almonester Roja y de la Ronde, the Baroness de Pontalba, who stamped her initials—and her vision—into the architecture of Jackson Square after surviving an assassination attempt by her own father-in-law. Her story is one of defiance and civic rebirth.
From there, we trace the preservationist fire of Elizabeth Werlein, the grande dame who fought to keep the Quarter’s Creole soul intact through the jazz age and beyond. We’ll speak of Madame LaLaurie—but not through haunted legend alone. Her cruelty will be laid bare as a testimony to racial violence cloaked in wealth and elegance.
And of course, we summon Marie Laveau—Queen of the Voodoo world, healer, mystic, and matriarch of mystery. Her spirit still coils through Congo Square and whispers through shutters. We'll pass the places she touched, the myths she mastered, the people she protected and terrified.
And we’ll honor Rose Nicaud, a once-enslaved woman who carved out a life selling coffee on the streets—one of the city’s first Black entrepreneurs, sweetening the morning air with roasted beans long before cafés lined every corner.
These women didn’t just live in New Orleans. They built her, broke her, resurrected her.
Audience: This tour is for ages 13+. It may contain story scenes of violence, sexual situations, and strong language.
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes
Where: French Quarter (starting location provided upon booking)
Includes: Riveting stories, landmark stops, and intimate histories of the women who walked boldly through—and into—the legend of the French Quarter.