Our Tours
Tickets are On Sale Now for the 2024 Season!
Stay tuned into our social media & this site for announcements about special events throughout the season as well.
You can also book private tours any time of year by sending us a message *here*.
Join Forest Lawn & No Illusions tours for a special limited tour celebrating the women who helped shape Buffalo’s World’s Fair.
You’ll hear the stories of all ways the Pan American Exposition just wouldn’t have been the same without them. This includes the stories of their efforts to create equal representation and diverse perspectives at the fair. We’ll also delve into the art and advertising they created to promote the Pan Am itself and other connections these women had. You’ll also learn some of Forest Lawn’s direct connections to the fair through beautiful elements of the space you can still enjoy today.
Two dates only: July 20th & August 24th at 11am.
Buffalo's Favorite Daughters
This is a three part series of walking tours showcasing Buffalo's storythrough the remarkable women that have lived and worked here. You'll hear stories of early trailblazers in business, art, charity and more. Our tour stars (or Badass Buffalo Babes as we like to call them) include a pioneer of the NAACP, America's 1st professional female architect, the "First Lady of American Theater", Buffalo's 1st WOC business owner, the creator of America's first childcare center, our youngest American First Lady, the author of the First American Best seller, and many more.
There is a 2 1/2 hour full length tour, and two shorter tours at 1 hour (Downtown) and 1 1/2 hour (Allentown).
Buffalo Lit
This 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 novel and F. Scott Fitzgerald's influential Buffalo childhood. This tour is about 1 1/2 hours.
Buffalo Anomalies
This October only 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 two ghost stories and a couple of lighter stops. The tour lasts 2 hours.
Buffalo Anomalies: Abridged
This shorter version includes three stories from the full tour as well as a brand new stop at the Statler.
