New Orleans Storyville History Walking Tour

If you’re looking for something less familiar than “haunted history”—but just as entertaining—this daytime journey through the sex, class, and music of “Storyville”, our historic “vice district”, is just what the witch doctor ordered. Populated with legendary brothel owners, notorious criminals, crusaders for equality, and pioneering jazz virtuosos, this is a stroll through some of the most jaw-dropping history the state of Louisiana has to offer.
Thanks to the miraculous work of city archivists, as well as historians like the one who curated our tour, Hottest Hell is now able to resurrect this forgotten neighborhood through a combination of historic photographs, visual aids, and narrative storytelling. Each tour guests receives their own “blue book” - modeled after the printed ‘guides to gals’ that ‘Tenderloin’ visitors could purchase - to help better see what was lost when Storyville was replaced.

Our tours go out rain or shine. Intoxicated travelers will not be permitted.

Meeting Point

1201 St Louis St

1201 St Louis St, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA

We meet near the corner of St. Louis Street and Basin Street.

What's included:

• Storyville walking tour with in-person guide
• A 24-page visual aid
• Lincensed, insured, and bonded tour operator

What to expect:

Duration: 1 hour, 45 minutes

Congo Square

701 N Rampart St, Entrance at the Corner of N. Rampart and Saint Peter Streets, New Orleans, 70116-3085, Louisiana

It is here you will explore the former gathering site of Voodoo practitioners.

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Jackson Square

751 Decatur St, , New Orleans, 70181, Louisiana

Here you will see stand before the historic structure where famed Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau would pray on Sundays, and would eventually be married.

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included