Explore the infamous Metairie Cemetary on a guided walking tour with a local author. Learn the fascinating history of this cemetery, see Anne Rice's tomb, and marvel at a pyramid guarded by a sphinx.
Meet your guide and local author at the cemetery and begin your walk beneath the shade of almost 1,000 trees. Learn how this cemetery, established in 1872, landed on the National Register of Historic Places.
As you stroll, hear the fascinating history behind a series of diverse characters that lay in peace in the cemetery, including mayors, governors, Kings of Carnival, mob bosses, law enforcement, and ground-breaking journalists.
Visit the most extravagant and multi-dollar tombs. Stop at Popeyes’ founder Al Copeland's tomb, see where the vampire-novelist Anne Rice is laid to rest, and stop at the sphinx-guarded pyramid.
Continue to a tomb with jewel stained-glass windows and see the Islamic-inspired tomb made of limestone that a Confederate general built for his daughter.
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