From an Old Apothecary to the LaLaurie Mansion After Dark
An after-dark walk through four French Quarter addresses where the city keeps its least comfortable stories.
The walk starts outside a green storefront on Chartres Street whose windows still read DRUGGIST & APOTHECARY. It is the Pharmacy Museum now, a room of nineteenth-century bottles and instruments from a city that once measured its summers in fever deaths. The tour takes its name from those epidemics.
Ninety minutes later the group is standing on Royal Street in front of the LaLaurie Mansion. The crime attached to that address has nothing to do with fever, and it is the story the walk saves for last.
Departures are at 6:30 PM and 8:30 PM, seven nights a week, and tickets start at USD 35. Booking stays open right up to the departure time. A walk decided on at 8:15 PM is still a walk you can join at 8:30 PM.
Mental Floss placed this walk sixth in a September 2026 list of 218 American ghost tours, scored on traveler ratings, the share of five-star reviews, and review volume. The route is fixed and entirely on foot.
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Pirates Alley runs a single block beside St. Louis Cathedral, flagstoned and walled on both sides.
The listing places eighteenth-century duels here, and that is the version told on the walk. Twenty of the ninety minutes are scheduled at this stop, tying it with the Marie Laveau block for the longest pause on the route.
The Voodoo Queen's House, Then the Mansion
The operator lists a stop at the house it calls Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau's, after the nineteenth-century practitioner whose name still attaches to New Orleans folklore. Twenty minutes are scheduled there, matching Pirates Alley. Neither the listing nor the operator prints an address for this stop.
The walk ends on Royal Street at the Delphine LaLaurie Mansion, which the listing calls the scene of some of the most heinous crimes in New Orleans history. The itinerary gives it fifteen minutes, the guide delivers that story last, and the group stays on the sidewalk.
What Ninety Minutes Actually Covers
Both the listing and the operator's own booking page headline seven haunted places, and both then name only four stops. The two lists of four do not match: the listing names Pirates Alley, while the operator names The Orleans Hotel in its place. The operator's FAQ puts the walk at three to four stops across about a mile, and says the group never enters a building.
Four is the figure the published schedules support, and those four carry seventy of the ninety minutes. Plan around four, and treat anything past that as upside.
Ages, Footing, and How Many Come Along
The operator does not recommend the walk for travelers in poor cardiovascular health, and asks for at least a moderate level of physical fitness. The ground is flat French Quarter sidewalk and flagstone. The standing adds up faster than the walking does.
The youngest ticket sold is a child fare covering ages six to twelve. Everyone thirteen and over books as an adult, and every booking has to include one. A single reservation holds up to twenty-eight travelers. That figure caps one booking; it does not describe how many people end up walking together.
The listing also says infants can ride in a pram or stroller, which sits oddly beside a ticket structure that begins at age six. The service-animal allowance comes from that same set of listing checkboxes, and the operator's own pages never address it.
The meeting point is the sidewalk outside the Pharmacy Museum at 514 Chartres Street, and the group forms there for both departures. The operator asks people to arrive at least ten minutes early, and says tours leave without delay. Booking is instant, and cancelling at least twenty-four hours before the departure time returns the full fare. The operator's own terms cover the nights it cancels for weather, and those terms let it settle with either a full refund or a credit. No-shows are charged in full.
The 8:30 PM walk finishes near ten o'clock on Royal Street, which leaves the rest of the Quarter open for the evening.