Visitors take a tour of St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 on Basin Street in New Orleans, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. In partnership with New Orleans Catholic Cemeteries, Cemetery Tours NOLA provides the ...

A historic New Orleans cemetery that may have started the city's tradition of above-ground crypts will soon be off-limits to tourists on their own because of repeated tomb vandalism.

A visitor walks through St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. The historic New Orleans cemetery that may have started the city's tradition of above-ground crypts will ...

New Orleans' oldest cemetery bans solo tourists after repeated vandalism of above-ground crypt of 19th Century voodoo priestess Marie Laveau. From March only tourists accompanied by guides ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A historic New Orleans cemetery that may have started New Orleans’ tradition of above-ground crypts will soon be off-limits to tourists on their own because of repeated ...

TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a story of the city’s above ground cemeteries, and those working behind the scenes. The many above ground cemeteries around town are hard to miss.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A historic New Orleans cemetery that may have started New Orleans’ tradition of above-ground crypts will soon be off-limits to tourists on their own because of repeated ...

New Orleans is home to several iconic cemeteries that top must-see lists when visiting Louisiana, not just for their historic intrigue but also for their unique method of above-ground burial. Of ...

However, New Orleans’ tombs are not the only tombs that have above-ground structures. Père Lachaise Cemetery in France and the Necrópolis Cristóbal Colón in Cuba, among others, also have ...

NEW ORLEANS — A historic New Orleans cemetery that may have started New Orleans’ tradition of above-ground crypts will soon be off-limits to tourists on their own because of repeated vandalism ...

Cemetery tours are popular in New Orleans because cemeteries here are unlike most cemeteries in the U.S. Many of the departed are buried above ground in tombs that range from simple to ornate.