First advice of all: if you don't have one yet -get a car. Like any city in this country, distances are big and you walk for days to come from one spot to the next. And, cubic transport isn't that accessible than on other continents...

Anyway, if your location is near French Quarter or within, there's still much to explore by walking.

Explore those streets in the morning, when tourists still are sleeping, stroll through the alleys along the old spanish houses, along the river Missisipi and its beautiful nostalgic Steamboats.

Bourbon Street is of course the most famous Street of this City, but it has become a bit whacky. So if you are not after Voodoo Dolls from China, i recommend you Royal Street or Chratress Street where you find vintage Furniture, Clothes and other Trouvailles.

" The Preservation Hall".

The place is nota Hall at all, rather a Barn. You need to buy your tickets in advance for a slot, but its worth it. The room its small, sticky and hot but its also a very distinguished location where people with a true passion and sincerity do what the love.