Movie, TV, and Ghostly Galavant Tour in New Orleans
This 2-hour tour will get stared right away with memorable movie sites, including the Court of Appeals building. The Originals, Live and Let Die, NCIS New Orleans, JFK, Pelican Brief and Runaway Jury were filmed within this block.
You only have to walk halfway down the block to see the site of the exhumation of Madame LaLaurie in American Horror Story. Across the street to see a true crime location, where a young man committed suicide. To this day, people get great ghost/physic photos here.
The stunning Jackson Square in the French Quarter is the next destination, and it has been the backdrop for many scenes from TV show and movies, including NCIS New Orleans, The Originals, Runaway Jury, Interview with a Vampire and others. Your tour guide will point out locations many films and TV shows were filmed in the area.
We will then walk down Pirate’s Alley, another major film location in New Orleans. A ghost or two have been known to show up for certain tour groups!
In the rear of St. Louis Cathedral stands one of the New Orleans' most well-known landmarks, Touchdown Jesus. Next we will head over to the Bourbon Orleans Hotel and talk about the quadroon balls, as well as the ghost of a young lady who still haunts that hotel.
The next stop is portrayed as the entrance to the NCIS headquarters. Many NCIS New Orleans fans have searched the city high and low for this spot, it can be hard to spot! The restaurant scene from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is just around the corner.
We will then stop across the street at the New Orleans Voodoo Museum, where you will learn the origin and history of New Orleans Voodoo. A few feet away is the house where Interview with a Vampire and 12 Years a Slave were filmed.
The tour guide will show you where Elvis Presley filmed King Creole in 1958 before heading off to a famous street corner where The Originals, Angel Heart and Focus, as wells as the classic film Lolita.
Your tour comes to its next stop, the Lalaurie mansion, perhaps better known as the setting for the filming of the gruesome murders in American Horror Story.
You will leave the LaLaurie mansion and head down to the famous French Market, where the SyFy ghost hunters once filmed an episode. Finally, we will head to the last stop in the French Market - one of the oldest restaurants in the United States, that also happens to be very haunted. For those who don’t believe in ghosts or life after death, you may change your mind after seeing video and pictures from this highly haunted adventure!
Your movie and ghostly galavant ends in the French Market.