Beautiful, bizarre, and bigger-than-life personalities who have paraded through New Orleans' French Quarter for the past half-century grace these pages. They're beyond belief, but they all exist in this most exotic of American cities; in its clubs, on its street corners and in the mists of memories that drift through the Quarter like fog coming in off the Mississippi.

Search through our Gallery of Eccentrics. Look here for information you won't find anywhere else on unique bars, clubs, shops and restaurants. Browse our special cinema section devoted to obscure B-movies and exploitation films shot in the French Quarter. Discover the magic and mystery of the most haunted city in America! Eccentric New Orleans is the constantly surprising site revealing the character of a city through the characters who inhabit it.