Ranked by fame

The 15 Most Iconic Spots in New Orleans, Ranked (2026)

We ranked New Orleans's landmarks by how many people look each one up on Wikipedia over a year — a refreshingly honest measure of what's genuinely iconic versus merely well-marketed. Most-looked-up first, each with somewhere to actually put it in your trip.

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  1. Final French Quarter walk

    ◎ 153k lookups a year

    • Final French Quarter walk, New Orleans
    Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

  2. Bourbon Street

    ◎ 93k lookups a year

    • Bourbon Street, New Orleans
    Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0

  3. Oak Alley Plantation

    ◎ 67k lookups a year

    • Oak Alley Plantation, New Orleans
    Jeffreyareed · Public domain

  4. Jackson Square

    ◎ 54k lookups a year

    • Jackson Square + St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans
    Michael Gaylard · CC BY 2.0

  5. National World War II Museum

    ◎ 53k lookups a year

    • National World War II Museum, New Orleans
    ctj71081 · CC BY-SA 2.0

  6. Congo Square

    ◎ 38k lookups a year

    • Congo Square, New Orleans
    Jeff Hitchcock · CC BY 2.0

  7. City Park

    ◎ 28k lookups a year

    • City Park, New Orleans
    Infrogmation of New Orleans · CC BY-SA 4.0

  8. Bywater

    ◎ 20k lookups a year

    • Bywater, New Orleans
    Infrogmation of New Orleans · CC BY-SA 4.0

  9. New Orleans Museum of Art

    ◎ 20k lookups a year

    • New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
    quinn.anya · CC BY-SA 2.0

  10. Frenchmen Street

    ◎ 18k lookups a year

    • Frenchmen Street, New Orleans
    Infrogmation of New Orleans · CC BY-SA 4.0

  11. Bacchanal Wine

    ◎ 16k lookups a year

    • Bacchanal Wine, New Orleans
    Jeremy Thompson · CC BY 4.0

  12. Lafayette Cemetery No. 1

    ◎ 14k lookups a year

    • Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans
    MusikAnimal · CC BY-SA 4.0

  13. Magazine Street

    ◎ 10k lookups a year

    • Magazine Street, New Orleans
    Infrogmation of New Orleans · CC BY-SA 4.0

  14. St. Augustine Church

    ◎ 9k lookups a year

    • St. Augustine Church, New Orleans
    Infrogmation of New Orleans · CC BY-SA 4.0

  15. Ogden Museum of Southern Art

    ◎ 7k lookups a year

    • Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans
    Infrogmation of New Orleans · CC BY-SA 4.0

Method: each spot's total English-Wikipedia pageviews, June 2025–May 2026, via the Wikimedia REST API. A proxy, cheerfully imperfect, but it rarely lies about what's actually iconic.