The U.S. City with the Most Kooks
If normal is boring and average is abhorrent, you probably enjoy quirky. And no city in the U.S. beats New Orleans when it comes to quirky. From jazz band funerals to voodoo shops, NOLA was ranked as the quirkiest city in the country by the readers of Travel + Leisure magazine. The offbeat culture in New Orleans has become so dominant that it’s almost mainstream, notes the magazine. Exhibit A: The spa at the very exclusive, hoity-toity Ritz Carlton even offers a voodoo massage that includes chants and absinthe. You find that at the Ritz in New York or D.C.
The top 20 U.S. cities with the most kooks per capita:
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Austin, Texas
- Portland, Oregon
- Providence, Rhode Island
- Albuquerque, New Mexico
- San Francisco, California
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Kansas City, Missouri
- Seattle, Washington
- New York, New York
- Tampa, Florida
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Portland, Maine
- Houston, Texas
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Los Angeles, California
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Louisville, Kentucky
- Atlanta, Georgia