America's Strangest People

Eccentricity makes New Orleans a natural contender for the nation's strangest people. Readers rank 35 metropolitan areas for features such as live music and food trucks as well as their residents -- be they smart, attractive, or, indeed, lovably weird.
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The last time Greg Newkirk visited New Orleans, one of his favorite local attractions was an actual local.

"I had walked into a shop to ask a few questions and ended up getting a thorough history of New Orleans voodoo by a man who was the nicest self-professed vampire you would ever meet," says the Cincinnati-based editor of Roadtrippers.com. "He gave us weird travel advice, delicious food advice, and psychic life advice. If that doesn't sum up the French Quarter, I don't know what does."

Such full-service eccentricity made New Orleans a natural contender for the nation's strangest people, based on votes in the offbeat category of T+L's annual America's Favorite Cities survey. Readers rank 35 metropolitan areas for features such as live music and food trucks as well as their residents -- be they smart, attractive, or, indeed, lovably weird.

--Katrina Brown Hunt

No. 7 Seattle

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