New Orleans museum Halloween tour highlights the macabre
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Talk about spooky: a Halloween-themed tour of New Orleans' grisly history opens next week and it's not for the squeamish.
The Historic New Orleans Collection has given a PG-13 rating to "La Danse Macabre: The Nightmare of History ," a one-hour, $5 guided tour of its history galleries. And there's good reason for the rating. Stops along the guided tour include a photograph of a shrine bedecked with plaster body parts, a picture of a woman who tortured slaves in the early 1800s, even a ragtime composition inspired by a New Orleans serial killer and titled "The Mysterious Axman's Jazz .