Walking tours explore intriguing surroundings at a leisurely pace, much like a photography class held in a thick bog of quicksand. Let it all sink in with today's Groupon to French Quarter Phantoms. Choose between the following options:
- For $16, you get two tickets to a cemetery walking tour (up to a $40 value).
- For $35, you get four tickets to a cemetery walking tour (up to an $80 value).
Tours begin Monday–Saturday at 11 a.m. and Sundays at 10 a.m. at CC's Community Coffee House on Decatur Street.
French Quarter Phantoms escorts tour takers through the ornate, eerily captivating passageways of St. Louis Cemetery #1, which holds a spot on the National Register of Historic Places. Covering approximately a mile, each two-hour journey ventures as far back as 1789, when the cemetery was built, and explores the resting places of more than 100,000 bodies. As guests tread cautiously from one spooky setting to the next, knowledgeable guides dole tales based on true and extensively researched facts. Along the route, groups cross paths with more than 700 tombs, including the grave of voodoo queen Marie Laveau and the musicians’ tomb, where the invisible hands of player pianos rest in peace.
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The Groupon Guide to: Astronaut Training
NASA's manned shuttle program ended not because of a lack of interest on the part of astronauts but because so few people could complete the rigorous astronaut training process. Here's a look at the extreme tests given to would-be space jockeys:
Human Centrifuge: This giant man-spinner rotates thousands of times per minute to simulate the effects of the space shuttle accidentally getting caught in a giant centrifuge.
16-Minute Mile: Would be easy except that the astronauts have to race while simultaneously writing an essay-length evocation of the perfect sunrise
A Series of Riddles: To prepare for the riddles that the real space station will ask after it comes alive
Media Training: Helps returned astronauts face reporters even after learning the horrible truth that the back half of the moon is simply not there anymore
Forlornness Simulator: Not for space, where astronauts stay occupied with work, but for their return to Earth after the empty vastness of space has opened their eyes to human existence's overwhelming lack of meaning
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