St. Louis Cemetery #1
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- Address:1300 St. Louis Street, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Admission:Free
More than 100,000 bodies lie in Saint Louis Cemetery #1, New Orleans’ famous cemetery that takes up just one square block between St. Louis and Conti streets just outside the French Quarter. A bit of a morbid attraction, the cemetery has been a lauded place of burial since it opened in 1789, making it the oldest of the city’s three Roman Catholic St. Louis cemeteries.
What makes it both creepier than your average cemetery and way more dramatic is that all the graves are above ground vaults, most of which were built in the 18th and 19th centuries. Many notable New Orleans residents lie here, including Homer Plessy and Etienne de Boré. Famous Voodoo priestess Marie Laveau is also rumored to be entombed here.
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