Our Tours
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This year our Buffalo's Favorite Daughter's tours are getting a makeover. We haven't removed any of our Badass Buffalo Babes, but there are some new stops featuring women that have only been featured on special tours and events in the past. With these new additions the routes needed to be adjusted as well. This year we will now have two different Downtown tours and no more Full Tour. But I need your help. I'd love some feedback on the flow of the new routes and so I am offering half priced tours in April before the season officially starts. All that I ask is that after the tour you answer a few questions on a comment card. Look out for these $10 tours to go on sale with all other tours on March 8th!
2026 Season Opener at Forest Lawn
Celebrate the start of No Illusions 8th tour season on May 9th with a special tour at Forest Lawn by Trolley. You'll hear stories from many of our Buffalo's Favorite Daughters tours at the women's' final resting places. Ticket price also includes a $5 donation to the Family Justice Center of Erie County and No Illusions stickers. This will be our only tour this year by trolley and is great way to experience the story of these Badass Buffalo Babes with minimal walking.
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Tickets for the 2026 Season will be available March 8th.
You can also book private tours for 5 or more people any time of year
by sending us a message *here*.
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Buffalo's Favorite Daughters
Choose from one of three 90 minute walking tours focusing on Buffalo's story through the lives of some of its remarkable women. You'll hear stories of early trailblazers in business, art, charity and more.
Our Allentown tour covers women in art and politics, including the stories the First Lady of American Theatre, Art Nouveau artists, two authors, including the Mother of Detective Fiction, and the United States' youngest First Lady.
The Downtown South tour covers women in charity, activism, business, and entertainment-- which include that of the 1st professional female architect in the U.S., a pioneer of the NAACP, two women who define turn-of-the-century charity work, the owner of an inclusive and well-known nightclub, and an early Irish jig star.
The Downtown North tour covers some of Buffalo's founding mothers and pioneers in many fields. They include the story of the only home to survive the Battle of Buffalo in the War of 1812, the woman who brought the ASPCA to Buffalo (the second branch in the U.S.), two women who ran internationally known businesses at the turn-of-the-century, and Buffalo's first Teacher of Color.
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Collaborations with Forest Lawn
This year we have two tour collaborations with Forest Lawn. Join us to tell the story of Buffalo through its remarkable women in this stunning setting. Choose from a tour featuring various influential women from our Buffalo's Favorite Daughters tours (07/11 & 09/12) or take the Women of the Pan Am tour (06/13 & 08/08) to hear about how these women and others brought Buffalo's world's fair to life.
Buffalo Lit
This 90 minute walking tour tells Buffalo's story through the lives of five authors who lived here; how the city helped to shape them and their writing and how they in turn helped to shape the city.
Our stops will tell the story of William Wells Brown's introduction to the Abolition movement and his first forays in writing and lecturing in his nine years in the city and Mark Twain's time with a Buffalo newspaper where he ultimately decided novel-writing was his next step. You'll also hear about Marian deForest's career as one of Buffalo's first female journalists and a popular playwright, Anna Katherine Green's life as America's first best selling author and Mother of the Detective Fiction and F. Scott Fitzgerald's influential Buffalo childhood.
Buffalo Anomalies
This October only 120 minute walking tour tells the story of Buffalo through its strange and unusual events. We'll tell you the tales of Buffalo's oldest cemetery and the city and county's only public hanging. You'll also hear about the assassination of one president and inauguration of another as well as the invention of the electric chair and the crime and trial of the first person to succumb to it. There are also ghost stories and a couple of lighter stops.
Buffalo Anomalies: Abridged
This shorter 60 minute version includes three stories from the full tour as well as a stop at the Statler unique to this tour.
