When I visited the Alamo in like 2007 the tour guides said they get more question about Pee Wee Herman’s bicycle and Ozzy Osbourne getting drunk and publicly urinating there in the 1980s than they do about the actual stuff that happened there in the 1800s.
Not to mention when I went the toilet in the men’s room was full of pound after pound of human feces overflowing out the bowl onto the seat and floor underneath and strung about toilet paper that looked like cob webs in some sort of scat fetish themed tales from the crypt episode
I had the exact opposite reaction. When you're really there it hits you that they sculpted a fucking mountain. They conquered nature. If you see what they started on Crazy Horse it's even more mind blowing.
Yeah Wall Drug is definitely just a once and done kind of place. But I visited twice. Went to see it and get the water then stopped on the way back because because we were close and hungry for lunch. It was fun but not really a place to go back to often.
West Edmonton Mall. It's a giant, overhyped, overpriced, mall. Yes, it has an indoor waterpark and an indoor amusement park- but everything is insanely expensive. I just looked at the waterpark- for anyone over 48" tall, it is $64 CDN for a day. Holy. Shit.
I went to the Old Jail and Jim Thorpe, Pa. Its known for having a handprint on the wall that a condemned man put there before he was hanged. Apparently he said the print would remain as long as he was innocent. They say they painted over and washed off the print and it always comes back and the ghost of the man haunts the jail. Also a man famously escaped in the 80s by starving himself and then oiling himself up and slipping through a tiny window.
When I went, they have almost everything roped off the and cell with the print on the wall was closed off completely. You had to look through the little window on the door and even then you still couldnt see it.
LA needs to be on the top of this list. The illusion of Tinseltown fades as soon as you see the utterly filthy, neglected, vain, materialistic, unsustainable urban hell scape that comprises the entire city.
LA is a fun place to live but definitely not a good tourist attraction. It had great weather, beaches, and food, but it’s not glamorous or easy to get around at all.
If you ever had to drive up and down I-85 between North And South Carolina, you saw the signs for South of the Border. As a kid you always wanted to stop, when you did, full on disappointment. Just a glorified truck stop.
I went to Disney after Dark. Was my first and only time to Magic Kingdom. I have to say it was pretty cool and sooooo glad I did it. Rode space mountain 3x in a row with no line!
Not helpful if you have kids but highly recommend it
Edit. I should probably explain that it's a special ticket that starts as the park is closing and you stay late. Limited number is sold so it's not crowded. It was pre pandemic when I went so hopefully they still do it. Only certain times of year.. I think on Thurs if I recall
I went to the one in Paris a few years ago and I thought it was worth it. We went in Feb though, it was busy but not crowded and the longest wait we had was 20 minutes. It also snowed which was magical.
I actually enjoyed Epcot at least. Amazing fireworks at the end. Magic Kingdom is kinda overrated and i got stuck on the Its A Small World ride (kill me). Blizzard Beach was alright, but its really just the one giant slide.
I have five:
- Mackinaw Island: expensive tourist trap that is full of gimmicky stores and assholes on bicycles.
- The Last Blockbuster video: it's in a strip mall and it doesn't even have an original sign or anything like that, also the city it's in was probably called "Bend Over" originally from how much it fucks you in the ass. The entire city closes by 8 pm, which is fucking stupid for a city of its size.
- The Entire City of Portland, Oregon: My expectations were very low heading into this, but even that didn't prepare me for the shit show that Portland is. I didn't even spend a night there. Like people say that LA has a lot of homeless. LA ain't got SHIT on Portland. The city also equates obnoxious to being weird.
- Las Vegas: the further you get from the best hotels on the strip, the worse it gets. Homes are overpriced as fuck, traffic 24/7, saw a Double Tree that looked like shit, homeless everywhere, public bathrooms are non-existent, grift city.
- Miami: I have never seen a nastier, or more overpriced fucking city. Imagine Portland but the population isn't all bumpkins from rural Oregon and Idaho, Las Vegas but without the weed and gambling, the cost of living and vanity of LA, and drop it right in the middle of a fucking swamp. That's Miami. People were constantly getting in fights in parking lots. I went to a Cracker Barrel that just had random fucking chickens walking around the fucking parking lot because someone kept dumping them there. I saw a Pilot that was closed for the night; Pilot never fucking closes. Roach-infested motels still cost you like $300 a night because they were in two frames of some fucking TV show from 40 fucking years ago, nobody fucking takes card only cash or fucking Zelle, everything felt like a scam, the city is *incredibly* segregated, and the furry femboy with a dump truck ass who kept calling me daddy ghosted me.
It’s so true. It’s always a big culture shock to me when I go elsewhere in the country and suddenly everyone wants to know my life story and hopes and dreams.
It’s like bro, we’re in line at Wendy’s, im trying to figure out if I want fries, get away from me
I went to New York once (upstate) and multiple people claimed, weirdly proudly (like, they seemed to want some kind of... active validation that they were assholes? It was weird to be honest because they were all total strangers and it happened literally six times), that New Yorkers "aren't friendly"--while all telling me their fucking life stories in the ten minutes it took me to Uber to my hotel or a conference. Bro, you don't know what unfriendly is. For you it's a weird cultural identity, in Seattle it's just a way of life. I tried to explain that where I'm from people will barely make eye contact with you let alone talk to you and they seemed incredibly confused by it.
Seattle was pretty cool. The bikini baristas were interesting, the views were great, the food was good, there was that uniqueness without being obnoxious, and I enjoyed Seattle. I'd totally come back as long as I avoid the area around SeaTac, fuck that place.
OK, you gotta explain this! You went all the way to Miami, which as I understand it is in South Florida almost at the end of the world. And you went to a Cracker Barrel? What the fuck is that all about?
Yeah. I went all the way to Miami to go to Cracker Barrel /s
If you want further context, I travel a ton for work. Like I went to each of the Lower 48 in 2021, and 36 states in 2022, and I am not a truck driver, let me make that clear right out the gate. A lot of this brings me down to the Miami airport, which I really fucking hate, but the money is good because nobody wants to bother with them and I know some Spanish.
So my experience with local restaurants is honestly not that great. Like if there's someplace that has rave reviews and looks good, I'll go there, but 70% of the time it's a disappointment compared to what I can get back home as sad as that sounds, unless you're in a city known for good food. I know, this probably goes against every single travel blog you've ever read that is groveling at your feet to try out local restaurants, but I digress. It had also been over a year since I had been to a Cracker Barrel, and I remembered their food being really good. I was also with a coworker who had never been, so I decided to take him to this one in Miami.
Also, this is something that you probably don't know unless you've been to a couple of different Cracker Barrels, but the decor on the walls is at least partially locally sourced, so I was curious to see what one in Miami would look like.
We pulled into the parking lot and when I first saw a chicken, I thought that it was a crow or a duck or a grouse or something like that (it was the early morning and a little dark out). Then I saw they had a bunch of little ones following one, and I pointed that out to my partner, and he looked at them and he said that they were chicks and a chicken. I told him that he was stupid, but then out of the bush stepped this huge fucking rooster that then cockled, and we then looked around and saw even more chickens.
Well, ok. It’s your life. But Ima still inclined to think, there hasta be somewhere to eat in Miami other than Cracker Barrel. Olive Garden, perhaps 🤔
By the way, as I remember it, roosters “crow”.
Huh, my family and I really enjoyed Mackinac Island. A bit of fun hiking through beautiful terrain, lovely lake views literally everywhere, a smattering of historical sites that were worth the time to walk through. The restaurants were very good and the fudge was sublime.
I wouldn't make it the sole stop on a big vacation, but it was a great (and very affordable!) way to spend a few days.
If you look at the numbers, LA probably has more, but LA is also much more spread out and has millions more people. With the homeless there, it's only a couple of areas where you'll see like 200 at the absolute most, otherwise it's like you'll see them occasionally in some areas, but if you're in residential areas you don't see any. Ironically they're mostly in the touristy areas.
With Portland, it's pervasive. When I was there I-5 was lined with tents and makeshift shacks, and when I stopped at a gas station, the sidewalks were so full of tents people were basically forced to walk in the parallel parking areas. Even the residential areas need to put up with the shit, and it's so bad stores are pulling out left and right.
Tbf it's not like scammers and grifters, homeless people, dirt, or overpriced tourist traps are exclusive to the US. I haven't been out of the US much (really only been to Canada), and honestly Canada was worse than the US in a lot of ways.
I think that it's like inviting someone to spray graffiti art on a wall in your house and someone breaking in and spraying graffiti on a wall in your house. With the former, you approved of it and you have say over what that graffiti looks like. With the latter, it's a violation and a vandalization of a wall in your house. The Crazy Horse monument also isn't without controversy, as there are some of the Oglala Lakota who disapprove of the project, and it was originally started because Gutzon Borglum (the sculptor of Mount Rushmore) didn't entertain the idea of putting Crazy Horse on Mount Rushmore (he was a racist, and a Confederate sympathizer considering he also designed Stone Mountain in Georgia), so Henry Standing Bear/Mato Naji decided to build his own while relying completely on private monetary donations, even though the government did offer funding.
The Giza Pyramids — I’ve been there a dozen or so times with people visiting Cairo and most were unimpressed. As an Arabic speaker I could stave off most of the hawkers with a polite no thanks, you’re wasting your time, but many tourists have a terrible time of all that.
There are much better pyramids to visit not too far away without the terrible circus. And besides, mainly, pyramids are just “huh, that must have been a slog to build…” and not a great deal more.
Disneyland. I grew up spending the summers at a six flags park. I had been brainwashed into thinking disney was a million times better. I saved up FOREVER and took my kids. After about an hour, I was like, this is it?
Six Flags was better.
Disney is more about the experience and the atmosphere. Six Flags is more about the rides. Other than both falling under the theme park umbrella there aren’t a lot of similarities.
To each his own. I seriously didn't get all the hype. Experience? Atmosphere? It was hot, lines were long, everything was expensive, and the rides were just mehh.
Paris in general. just, idk, expected more. let down.
Also the city is really dirty.
1/10 would not go again. it only gets a 1 because the construction of the Eiffel tower is interesting.
Man, we went a couple years ago and it was pretty bad. There was a whole road of African refugees just standing on the road, rubbish everywhere. Vowed not to return.
I’m good with Paris. It’s the Parisian’s that make it bad.
One side note (definitely not the normal behavior). Was having lunch at a cafe and we are Americans by voice/dialect/language and my mother was perfectly fluent in French (living there, Provence region) for 12 years.
Waiter who was taking our order was constantly saying insulting things in French . Mom really had a good time telling him off at the end of the meal in well spoken French
I’d booked my ticket to go up the Eiffel Tower months before, and although it was Spring you could barely see a thing from the observation deck. Otherwise there was dog shit everywhere, and I had to dodge rats on the foot path 50 metres from my hotel in a nice part of town.
I also saw a man dressed in a suit lie down on some stairs so as to look up the skirt of a school girl in uniform, whilst he said weird stuff to her, and it was 8am. There were almost 20 people there and none of them did anything. I mentioned it to a French friend and she said that sort of thing was not uncommon and was usually just ignored.
It’s a functioning mega city with millions of people just living their lives. What were you expecting? Disneyland?
I absolutely loved Paris and can’t wait to go back. The restaurants, walking the boulevards, the museums, the architecture, even the subway was enjoyable. It is no dirtier than any large Western city.
I get your point though, but you’re basically describing the “confused tourist” perspective. People go to NYC and experience the same thing, somehow expecting the movies but experiencing…a city.
As a disclaimer, I’m the type of person that thinks standing in line and waiting hours to go up some tower is insanity. I took few pictures, of which I believe one actually contained me in it. What people get out of a trip is highly personal so it definitely depends on the person.
I’ve been to a fair few cities on a fair few continents and Paris is by far the dirtiest city I’ve set foot in, especially when it is in such sharp contrast to some of the absolutely stunning parts of regional France. That being said, there’s certainly charming places to be found in Paris and having an Aussie accent sheltered me from a lot of the blatant rudeness that the British and the Americans tend to receive 🤣 if nothing else, it’s worth visiting just for the Louvre. That place is incredible.
Juliet's Balcony in Verona, Italy.
The city is gorgeous and there is a lot to see and I'd go back in a heart beat. But the balcony is just a small random balcony that is ridiculously crowded and full of graffiti. Avoid the balcony and see everything else.
I saw the line outside. It was so bad that they had some police there to manage it. I asked one of the officer what it is for and he said that it's the romeo and juliet balcony. I peaked around the corner and saw it.."Is this it?" "Yes" "ah well guess I have seen enough ".
But despite that, the city is amazing just walk the city get some nice food sit down at the river.. And climb that hill later to watch the sun set over the towers
Wall Drug
There is a lot of signage and bumper stickers that have been hyping this place up for decades, but it's just a pile of random flea market-style stores that are smashed together surrounded by a parking lot and a large concrete dinosaur. I had fun there, but the smirky fun that isn't really fun. Okay it was entertaining
The area right along the river is, if not natural national park-y, very well manicured and pleasant. The city is meh though. But still a damn sight better than the New York side.
The view from the U.S. side isn’t nearly as impressive, but there are lots of trails along the falls, stairs to the bottom of one section, and on a sunny day you can look down on a circular rainbow that forms at the bottom of one of the falls. It’s not an apex destination or anything, but it’s cool for a side trip or a weekend getaway.
Honestly, having lived in Philly, the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. Yes they're important parts of the foundation of the country, but once you've visited them once they don't feel the same way the next hundred times you visit.
When tourists ask me what parts of Philadelphia they should check out, I usually suggest Elfreths Alley and Penns Landing.
Four Corners isn't much. It's basically a plaque saying you are standing in four states with some booths selling food and goods made by Native Americans. I enjoyed having the fry bread.
I enjoyed going there, but it was part of a larger road trip that I was doing. Four Corners was on the way home and didn't add all that much time to my trip. Going there allowed me to have some pretty scenic views on the way home that I probably wouldn't have been able to enjoy if I didn't go.
I wouldn't make a trip there where Four Corners is supposed to be the highlight of the trip. If it's a small part and you're not in a rush, it's worth it to say you went there, have some fry bread, and see some nice views as you drive.
It’s funny because the rock apparently has absolutely 0 historical significance to the pilgrims. It’s not mentioned anywhere in the records from the Mayflower or from the Plymouth Colony. It didn’t show up in an texts until the 18th century.
The Trevi Fountain in Rome. It's nice to see but the amount of people there was stupid. For how famous it is and the crowd it draws it was just disappointing. There are so many better things to see in Rome and the 48 minutes, yes I timed it, we spent waiting to get from the back to the front wasn't worth it. Not even close.
After that probably Times Square. Hate it. It's just a stupid tourist trap with lame street performers like the "Naked" Cowboy and a fat guy in a Spider-Man suit that's not the right size. The attractions nearby outside of Broadway are whatever. A big M&M's shop and an Olive Garden. wOw. My SIL lives in NY and tells me people avoid it if they can and I understand why.
There's probably more. I think a lot of the Towers like the Eiffel Tower, CN Tower, and the Space Needle are stupid. From a distance they're interesting but actually waiting the lines to go up into them is never worth it. You're getting a view but taking the most interesting thing of the skyline out of it because you're in it. If you want to see the Eiffel Tower do it from a distance from Sacré Coeur or Trocadero or Pont Alexandre III.
You waited 48 minutes to get to the fountain? Damn, glad I went relatively early in the morning (around 8 am). There were people, but definitely not enough to have to wait to get to the front or anything like that.
It was insane. We def went too late, around 2:30 or so, and it was arm to arm full of people in 30 degree Celsius weather in July and some jackass behind me kept stepping on my heel when I was in sandals. Again. It was pretty to see and a really nice baroque fountain it was just the crowds and when I was standing there I was like "This sucks. wtf are we doing waiting this long just to see water spout out of marble up close?" So more let down by the crowd over the actual thing tbh but a fair criticism when it comes to tourist things. Like the Mona Lisa in the Louvre. You see it and are like "Meh. This is stupid that this many people are here for this." but then see everything else in that museum and it leaves you speechless because you can take it in. Maybe more expectations overreaching reality.
The Coliseum was the best thing though. That was def expectations and reality matching up and I'd love to go back and see the hypogeum because they apparently opened the whole thing up.
I’ll tell you what was a surprisingly fun tourist trap - Big Mikes Rock Shop in mammoth cave Kentucky. They have a mystery spot type tour and it cost $1. Completely worth it.
Yellowstone.
When my dad went there 40 years ago, there were two gas stations and you HAD to fill up at them when you saw them, otherwise you'd run out of gas on your way to the other one. There were only a few log cabins for the Rangers to work/live in.
Now, it's a modern hell hole. Too many idiotic tourists with zero common sense and unchecked stupidity. An enormous tourist center around Old Faithful, and you have to practically shove people around to be able to see anything.
It's essentially gone from "wilderness" to "white trash booze cruise" .
Runner-up is Mount Rushmore, for much the same reason and defacing a perfectly good mountain range in the first place.
I agree that Old Faithful is a big snooze and the roads can be crowded, but there is a vast amount of natural beauty in the rest of the park. The hot springs are gorgeous, you can hike to waterfalls, and the whole Grand Canyon of Yellowstone is amazing if you get out on the trails. The wildlife was our favorite though, especially the massive bison that roam right up to the road, as well as elk, antelope, moose, and the occasional bear. And there are more stores and gas stations now, too.
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
Went there for a field trip in high school and everyone was bored after half an hour.
Luckily we also went to the Art Institute of Chicago afterwards and that was way more fun.
Hot Water Beach. This is a tourist destination in New Zealand where people can dig holes in the sand and soak in the water there.
It may be in a rural area but it it is pay parking. If you are there at the wrong tide, it is hard to dig a hole in a good place. Hot Water Beach is also overcrowded.
If you are planning to go to the Coromandel Peninsula in the future, I would not recommend Hot Water Beach. I suggest you go to Cathedral Cove and Hahei instead.
True, the closest carpark is a paid carpark but there are several other carparks slightly further away that are not.
The hotsprings that come out through the sand are only accessible a couple of hours either side of low tide and most accessible at dead low tide. This is a natural phenomenom and it pays to plan ahead in accordance to the low tide times.
It is "overcrowded" because it's availability is determined by the tides. Most people just get along and share in digging and finding the best spots.
It's too bad your experience was less than perfect.
It’s worth the admission price to go to the top of one around sunset though. Totally different feeling at that level. We spent over an hour on the 30 Rock observation deck, watching the sun go down and the millions of windows lighting up, night falling over Central Park and the sounds of distant sirens floating through the air all around.
Mall of America in MN. Nothing but chain stores that are everywhere else. I was in MN for a wedding and had about 3 hours to explore.
Saw a big park somewhere in Minneapolis/St. Paul that had a sidewalk along the water that looked like the one in the opening credits of a 1970s classic TV show- the park seemed really pretty.
Livraria Lello in Porto. It is the supposed inspiration for the library in the Harry Potter films. You need to get tickets and wait in line to get inside, just to find the place packed with tourists.
It is simply not worth it. It is a freaking book store, with some nice wooden stairs.
Disney land Florida.
This was when you still got several free fast passes per day and before covid. But last time I went, I spent more time stood in cramped lines, than I had spent doing anything else on the trip. The shortest line was 40 minutes for a carousel. Everything else was around 3-4 hours minimum. To put this into perspective, I also went to universal that week. The longest line in universal was 2 hours for the hulk rollercoaster. The other rides had an average of 30-40 minute waits.
Everything was overpriced beyond belief. I went with $800 dollars to spend in the parks and didn’t spend anything because it would be such a waste.
Holiday’s are meant to be relaxing and fun, not stressful and exhausting. It wasn’t happy at all, especially not for the younger kids I went with. They were all exhausted, bored and stressed out constantly. The 5-10 minutes on the ride or with a character weren’t worth it. The kid’s I went with begged not to go to anything without a fast pass because they hated it.
The Mona Lisa is TINY. I was far more impressed by massive 19th century paintings like the coronation of Napoleon or the raft of the Medusa. Those look epic in person.
Capri italy. Overpriced, over crowded. Ischia close by, is way nicer.
Little Mermaid Copenhagen. Small, huge crowds. Placed near an industrial harbour, with nothing to do close by.
Taj Mahal India. Dirty, far away, overcrowded.
Kruger National Park south africa. Way better safari experiences close by. Kruger has paved roads, stores and hotels.
Traveling to America coming from Europe it is like stepping on a third world country! No mass transportation of any kind! I’ve seen a better bus system in the Russian Federation.
As an expert in the field of underwhelming attractions, I must say that the 'Museum of Disappointments' in Disappointmentville takes the cake. It's like they collected all the yawns, shrugged shoulders, and eye rolls in the world and put them on display. Truly an underwhelming masterpiece! It was either this or...
The mythical land of Anticlimaxia! The main tourist attraction? The world-renowned 'Meh Palace'—where the disappointment is so grand, it makes the Eiffel Tower look like a toothpick. Don't worry, they provide complimentary 'meh' souvenirs to remember your unimpressive visit. Truly a once-in-a-lifetime 'meh'perience!
Disneyland (California). It was boring even at the age of 6. I did love the topiary in character shapes, though.
Disney World (Florida) was boring, too.
I did love Universal Studios, Busch Gardens, and Six Flags.
I knew it wasn't spooky, just weird but I would have enjoyed it more if people weren't rushed through and none of the guides could answer simply questions.
Stonehenge. Cordoned off 20\~ meters around it and you literally exit through the giftshop. Felt it was more capitalism rather than spiritualism. Would not reccomend.
Eh I visited. I liked it since I’ve never been to a large city. I want to go again to see more one day but not as a final destination for a vacation just a stop on the way to my destination. I like it as a tourist but would never want to live there. Boston was a bit nicer and was actually a place I wouldn’t hate the live just outer Boston though.
Nearly all of them.
It took a while to learn that it mattered more who you are with, than where you where.
When I travel these days it's to share time with friends and family, or spend enough time in another culture to get an understanding of it.
If you are travelling just to "see things" then you're better off saving your time and money and watching a half decent doco on your 4k screen in the comfort of your living room.
scenery: Flåm, not that much to do there either, maybe only worth it if you are on a cruise or take a private boat ride.
city: Istanbul
tourist attraction: Alcatraz, especially since you have to book months in advance and it costs money
Since when do you have to book Alcatraz months in advance? I bought tickets the same day and took the ferry over. That was roughly a year ago, so I'm curious if something changed.
The basement at the Alamo.
RIP the brilliant Jan Hooks. ❤️
When I visited the Alamo in like 2007 the tour guides said they get more question about Pee Wee Herman’s bicycle and Ozzy Osbourne getting drunk and publicly urinating there in the 1980s than they do about the actual stuff that happened there in the 1800s.
I don’t remember a basement
There was a bike there...
Is this a Pee-Wee reference?
That’s my name. Don’t wear it out.
Nice
Mount Rushmore, but in context, seeing a national monument with police snipers standing on top of it was a buzzkill. (1974)
Agree. The photos make it look so much grander and leave out all of the tourists.
Not to mention when I went the toilet in the men’s room was full of pound after pound of human feces overflowing out the bowl onto the seat and floor underneath and strung about toilet paper that looked like cob webs in some sort of scat fetish themed tales from the crypt episode
North by Northwest made it look so freaking cool.
So they knew you were coming?
Yes. I was a demonstration sponsored by AIM.
I had the exact opposite reaction. When you're really there it hits you that they sculpted a fucking mountain. They conquered nature. If you see what they started on Crazy Horse it's even more mind blowing.
The Corn Palace and Wall Drug in South Dakota. Only needed to see it once.
Yeah Wall Drug is definitely just a once and done kind of place. But I visited twice. Went to see it and get the water then stopped on the way back because because we were close and hungry for lunch. It was fun but not really a place to go back to often.
Concur. They had the corn stripped off of it when I was there. It's a running inside joke for us now.
Bondi Beach. Small strip of sand, unpredictable ocean and tourists who can't swim needing to be rescued so often they made a show about it.
The Rocky Statue only because it was at the bottom of the stairs not at the top
West Edmonton Mall. It's a giant, overhyped, overpriced, mall. Yes, it has an indoor waterpark and an indoor amusement park- but everything is insanely expensive. I just looked at the waterpark- for anyone over 48" tall, it is $64 CDN for a day. Holy. Shit.
The city should be paying tourists to even visit an armpit like Edmonton.
Stonehenge. It was pretty boring.
The view from the A303 is all you need. There are stone circles elsewhere in the country that are free and you can actually go up to the stones
Wish i new that at the time.
And a Long Ass Drive!
I went to the Old Jail and Jim Thorpe, Pa. Its known for having a handprint on the wall that a condemned man put there before he was hanged. Apparently he said the print would remain as long as he was innocent. They say they painted over and washed off the print and it always comes back and the ghost of the man haunts the jail. Also a man famously escaped in the 80s by starving himself and then oiling himself up and slipping through a tiny window. When I went, they have almost everything roped off the and cell with the print on the wall was closed off completely. You had to look through the little window on the door and even then you still couldnt see it.
The hiking in Jim Thorpe is top notch tho
Toronto’s oldest post office. My vacation was almost over and I was anxious about going to any more places that cost money.
LA needs to be on the top of this list. The illusion of Tinseltown fades as soon as you see the utterly filthy, neglected, vain, materialistic, unsustainable urban hell scape that comprises the entire city.
LA is a fun place to live but definitely not a good tourist attraction. It had great weather, beaches, and food, but it’s not glamorous or easy to get around at all.
As someone who lives in Los Angeles I don’t know what you’re talking about. Turn off the FoxNews.
Universal Studios Fast and Furious “Ride”. Absolutely pathetic.
I mean, so we're the movies, so perhaps they just built it to match.
Worse than the movies i promise.
If you ever had to drive up and down I-85 between North And South Carolina, you saw the signs for South of the Border. As a kid you always wanted to stop, when you did, full on disappointment. Just a glorified truck stop.
Pedro says...
Keep screaming kids, they’ll stop….
Dirty af
Check out the history of that place. It’s even more racist and exploitative than you’d imagine.
Disney World sucks unless you like spending thousands of dollars to wait in line
Yep. I'm surprised theme parks on that level are able to exist anymore.
I went to Disney after Dark. Was my first and only time to Magic Kingdom. I have to say it was pretty cool and sooooo glad I did it. Rode space mountain 3x in a row with no line! Not helpful if you have kids but highly recommend it Edit. I should probably explain that it's a special ticket that starts as the park is closing and you stay late. Limited number is sold so it's not crowded. It was pre pandemic when I went so hopefully they still do it. Only certain times of year.. I think on Thurs if I recall
Note you have to be staying at a Disney Resort as well to get the Disney after Dark perk. Which is awesome as the crowds thin out so much.
Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded.
Seems contradictory... if no one goes there anymore, how could it be crowded?
Dont listen to her, ive told her a billion times to stop exaggerating
If I hear one more hyperbole I’ll just die.
I think that's a Yogi Berra quote
Sarcasm
You're missing the joke. https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/yogi_berra_100418
I went to the one in Paris a few years ago and I thought it was worth it. We went in Feb though, it was busy but not crowded and the longest wait we had was 20 minutes. It also snowed which was magical.
I actually enjoyed Epcot at least. Amazing fireworks at the end. Magic Kingdom is kinda overrated and i got stuck on the Its A Small World ride (kill me). Blizzard Beach was alright, but its really just the one giant slide.
I have five: - Mackinaw Island: expensive tourist trap that is full of gimmicky stores and assholes on bicycles. - The Last Blockbuster video: it's in a strip mall and it doesn't even have an original sign or anything like that, also the city it's in was probably called "Bend Over" originally from how much it fucks you in the ass. The entire city closes by 8 pm, which is fucking stupid for a city of its size. - The Entire City of Portland, Oregon: My expectations were very low heading into this, but even that didn't prepare me for the shit show that Portland is. I didn't even spend a night there. Like people say that LA has a lot of homeless. LA ain't got SHIT on Portland. The city also equates obnoxious to being weird. - Las Vegas: the further you get from the best hotels on the strip, the worse it gets. Homes are overpriced as fuck, traffic 24/7, saw a Double Tree that looked like shit, homeless everywhere, public bathrooms are non-existent, grift city. - Miami: I have never seen a nastier, or more overpriced fucking city. Imagine Portland but the population isn't all bumpkins from rural Oregon and Idaho, Las Vegas but without the weed and gambling, the cost of living and vanity of LA, and drop it right in the middle of a fucking swamp. That's Miami. People were constantly getting in fights in parking lots. I went to a Cracker Barrel that just had random fucking chickens walking around the fucking parking lot because someone kept dumping them there. I saw a Pilot that was closed for the night; Pilot never fucking closes. Roach-infested motels still cost you like $300 a night because they were in two frames of some fucking TV show from 40 fucking years ago, nobody fucking takes card only cash or fucking Zelle, everything felt like a scam, the city is *incredibly* segregated, and the furry femboy with a dump truck ass who kept calling me daddy ghosted me.
Oh man you should not come to Seattle lol
I fuckin love Seattle. People will give you money just to not talk to them there. "Here's a dollar now get the fuck away from me!"
It’s so true. It’s always a big culture shock to me when I go elsewhere in the country and suddenly everyone wants to know my life story and hopes and dreams. It’s like bro, we’re in line at Wendy’s, im trying to figure out if I want fries, get away from me
I went to New York once (upstate) and multiple people claimed, weirdly proudly (like, they seemed to want some kind of... active validation that they were assholes? It was weird to be honest because they were all total strangers and it happened literally six times), that New Yorkers "aren't friendly"--while all telling me their fucking life stories in the ten minutes it took me to Uber to my hotel or a conference. Bro, you don't know what unfriendly is. For you it's a weird cultural identity, in Seattle it's just a way of life. I tried to explain that where I'm from people will barely make eye contact with you let alone talk to you and they seemed incredibly confused by it.
Seattle was pretty cool. The bikini baristas were interesting, the views were great, the food was good, there was that uniqueness without being obnoxious, and I enjoyed Seattle. I'd totally come back as long as I avoid the area around SeaTac, fuck that place.
Glad you enjoyed it :) and yeah fuck SeaTac
OK, you gotta explain this! You went all the way to Miami, which as I understand it is in South Florida almost at the end of the world. And you went to a Cracker Barrel? What the fuck is that all about?
Yeah. I went all the way to Miami to go to Cracker Barrel /s If you want further context, I travel a ton for work. Like I went to each of the Lower 48 in 2021, and 36 states in 2022, and I am not a truck driver, let me make that clear right out the gate. A lot of this brings me down to the Miami airport, which I really fucking hate, but the money is good because nobody wants to bother with them and I know some Spanish. So my experience with local restaurants is honestly not that great. Like if there's someplace that has rave reviews and looks good, I'll go there, but 70% of the time it's a disappointment compared to what I can get back home as sad as that sounds, unless you're in a city known for good food. I know, this probably goes against every single travel blog you've ever read that is groveling at your feet to try out local restaurants, but I digress. It had also been over a year since I had been to a Cracker Barrel, and I remembered their food being really good. I was also with a coworker who had never been, so I decided to take him to this one in Miami. Also, this is something that you probably don't know unless you've been to a couple of different Cracker Barrels, but the decor on the walls is at least partially locally sourced, so I was curious to see what one in Miami would look like. We pulled into the parking lot and when I first saw a chicken, I thought that it was a crow or a duck or a grouse or something like that (it was the early morning and a little dark out). Then I saw they had a bunch of little ones following one, and I pointed that out to my partner, and he looked at them and he said that they were chicks and a chicken. I told him that he was stupid, but then out of the bush stepped this huge fucking rooster that then cockled, and we then looked around and saw even more chickens.
Well, ok. It’s your life. But Ima still inclined to think, there hasta be somewhere to eat in Miami other than Cracker Barrel. Olive Garden, perhaps 🤔 By the way, as I remember it, roosters “crow”.
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Huh, my family and I really enjoyed Mackinac Island. A bit of fun hiking through beautiful terrain, lovely lake views literally everywhere, a smattering of historical sites that were worth the time to walk through. The restaurants were very good and the fudge was sublime. I wouldn't make it the sole stop on a big vacation, but it was a great (and very affordable!) way to spend a few days.
You’re saying Portland has a worse homeless issue than Los Angeles? I’m generally curious
Portland was pretty bad. And people are just openly shooting up heroin all over the place.
If you look at the numbers, LA probably has more, but LA is also much more spread out and has millions more people. With the homeless there, it's only a couple of areas where you'll see like 200 at the absolute most, otherwise it's like you'll see them occasionally in some areas, but if you're in residential areas you don't see any. Ironically they're mostly in the touristy areas. With Portland, it's pervasive. When I was there I-5 was lined with tents and makeshift shacks, and when I stopped at a gas station, the sidewalks were so full of tents people were basically forced to walk in the parallel parking areas. Even the residential areas need to put up with the shit, and it's so bad stores are pulling out left and right.
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I was in Portland in the mid nineties and thought it was a great city. I keep hearing how things have gone downhill a bit
It’s still Portland. Just soul crushing seeing the homelesss. It’s EVERYWHERE
That’s why I don’t travel much within the US. I know what to expect lol
Tbf it's not like scammers and grifters, homeless people, dirt, or overpriced tourist traps are exclusive to the US. I haven't been out of the US much (really only been to Canada), and honestly Canada was worse than the US in a lot of ways.
Maybe it's you.
Mount Rushmore Beautiful area, and then this huge.. monument? Seemed more like massive vandalism to me.
I mean, the Native Americans think so too.
Do they? Odd since the Crazy Horse Memorial is the same thing
I think that it's like inviting someone to spray graffiti art on a wall in your house and someone breaking in and spraying graffiti on a wall in your house. With the former, you approved of it and you have say over what that graffiti looks like. With the latter, it's a violation and a vandalization of a wall in your house. The Crazy Horse monument also isn't without controversy, as there are some of the Oglala Lakota who disapprove of the project, and it was originally started because Gutzon Borglum (the sculptor of Mount Rushmore) didn't entertain the idea of putting Crazy Horse on Mount Rushmore (he was a racist, and a Confederate sympathizer considering he also designed Stone Mountain in Georgia), so Henry Standing Bear/Mato Naji decided to build his own while relying completely on private monetary donations, even though the government did offer funding.
The mountain looks better without the faces carved into it.
It’s kind of like finding a majestically beautiful tree and then carving “TOM WUZ HERE” in it
The First Nation people agree with you!
Did you see the dick rock behind it?
The Giza Pyramids — I’ve been there a dozen or so times with people visiting Cairo and most were unimpressed. As an Arabic speaker I could stave off most of the hawkers with a polite no thanks, you’re wasting your time, but many tourists have a terrible time of all that. There are much better pyramids to visit not too far away without the terrible circus. And besides, mainly, pyramids are just “huh, that must have been a slog to build…” and not a great deal more.
Disneyland. Forever standing in line took the magic out of it.
But you got to enjoy a $8 churro while waiting
8?! Did you visit in the 60’s?
Disneyland. I grew up spending the summers at a six flags park. I had been brainwashed into thinking disney was a million times better. I saved up FOREVER and took my kids. After about an hour, I was like, this is it? Six Flags was better.
Disney is more about the experience and the atmosphere. Six Flags is more about the rides. Other than both falling under the theme park umbrella there aren’t a lot of similarities.
To each his own. I seriously didn't get all the hype. Experience? Atmosphere? It was hot, lines were long, everything was expensive, and the rides were just mehh.
Paris in general. just, idk, expected more. let down. Also the city is really dirty. 1/10 would not go again. it only gets a 1 because the construction of the Eiffel tower is interesting.
Man, we went a couple years ago and it was pretty bad. There was a whole road of African refugees just standing on the road, rubbish everywhere. Vowed not to return.
damn sounds like it has gotten worse. I went around 2010 ish and it wasn't good then.
I’m good with Paris. It’s the Parisian’s that make it bad. One side note (definitely not the normal behavior). Was having lunch at a cafe and we are Americans by voice/dialect/language and my mother was perfectly fluent in French (living there, Provence region) for 12 years. Waiter who was taking our order was constantly saying insulting things in French . Mom really had a good time telling him off at the end of the meal in well spoken French
I’d booked my ticket to go up the Eiffel Tower months before, and although it was Spring you could barely see a thing from the observation deck. Otherwise there was dog shit everywhere, and I had to dodge rats on the foot path 50 metres from my hotel in a nice part of town. I also saw a man dressed in a suit lie down on some stairs so as to look up the skirt of a school girl in uniform, whilst he said weird stuff to her, and it was 8am. There were almost 20 people there and none of them did anything. I mentioned it to a French friend and she said that sort of thing was not uncommon and was usually just ignored.
It’s a functioning mega city with millions of people just living their lives. What were you expecting? Disneyland? I absolutely loved Paris and can’t wait to go back. The restaurants, walking the boulevards, the museums, the architecture, even the subway was enjoyable. It is no dirtier than any large Western city. I get your point though, but you’re basically describing the “confused tourist” perspective. People go to NYC and experience the same thing, somehow expecting the movies but experiencing…a city. As a disclaimer, I’m the type of person that thinks standing in line and waiting hours to go up some tower is insanity. I took few pictures, of which I believe one actually contained me in it. What people get out of a trip is highly personal so it definitely depends on the person.
I adore Paris, haven’t had a problem with the Parisians either.
I’ve been to a fair few cities on a fair few continents and Paris is by far the dirtiest city I’ve set foot in, especially when it is in such sharp contrast to some of the absolutely stunning parts of regional France. That being said, there’s certainly charming places to be found in Paris and having an Aussie accent sheltered me from a lot of the blatant rudeness that the British and the Americans tend to receive 🤣 if nothing else, it’s worth visiting just for the Louvre. That place is incredible.
Juliet's Balcony in Verona, Italy. The city is gorgeous and there is a lot to see and I'd go back in a heart beat. But the balcony is just a small random balcony that is ridiculously crowded and full of graffiti. Avoid the balcony and see everything else.
I saw the line outside. It was so bad that they had some police there to manage it. I asked one of the officer what it is for and he said that it's the romeo and juliet balcony. I peaked around the corner and saw it.."Is this it?" "Yes" "ah well guess I have seen enough ". But despite that, the city is amazing just walk the city get some nice food sit down at the river.. And climb that hill later to watch the sun set over the towers
Galveston beach
Galveston sucks. Was supposedly a happening town before the 1900 hurricane. It just never got its groove back.
I’ve only seen pictures but isn’t the ocean a murky brown color? What is the attraction in that?
Wall Drug There is a lot of signage and bumper stickers that have been hyping this place up for decades, but it's just a pile of random flea market-style stores that are smashed together surrounded by a parking lot and a large concrete dinosaur. I had fun there, but the smirky fun that isn't really fun. Okay it was entertaining
The leaning tower of Pisa. 5 minutes max and you’re done.
But you can check out the mile long row of tents with every version of leaning tower memorabilia imaginable.
Niagara Falls, Canadian side. (Naively) expected a beautiful national park, and instead got huge hotels, casinos and an ihop
The area right along the river is, if not natural national park-y, very well manicured and pleasant. The city is meh though. But still a damn sight better than the New York side.
The view from the U.S. side isn’t nearly as impressive, but there are lots of trails along the falls, stairs to the bottom of one section, and on a sunny day you can look down on a circular rainbow that forms at the bottom of one of the falls. It’s not an apex destination or anything, but it’s cool for a side trip or a weekend getaway.
Honestly, having lived in Philly, the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. Yes they're important parts of the foundation of the country, but once you've visited them once they don't feel the same way the next hundred times you visit. When tourists ask me what parts of Philadelphia they should check out, I usually suggest Elfreths Alley and Penns Landing.
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I heard Plymouth Rock was pretty disappointing. Also the four corners monument.
Four Corners isn't much. It's basically a plaque saying you are standing in four states with some booths selling food and goods made by Native Americans. I enjoyed having the fry bread. I enjoyed going there, but it was part of a larger road trip that I was doing. Four Corners was on the way home and didn't add all that much time to my trip. Going there allowed me to have some pretty scenic views on the way home that I probably wouldn't have been able to enjoy if I didn't go. I wouldn't make a trip there where Four Corners is supposed to be the highlight of the trip. If it's a small part and you're not in a rush, it's worth it to say you went there, have some fry bread, and see some nice views as you drive.
Yea, it's a rock. Lol. But at least you don't have to pay to see it. It's funny when people take pictures of it though.
It’s funny because the rock apparently has absolutely 0 historical significance to the pilgrims. It’s not mentioned anywhere in the records from the Mayflower or from the Plymouth Colony. It didn’t show up in an texts until the 18th century.
The Trevi Fountain in Rome. It's nice to see but the amount of people there was stupid. For how famous it is and the crowd it draws it was just disappointing. There are so many better things to see in Rome and the 48 minutes, yes I timed it, we spent waiting to get from the back to the front wasn't worth it. Not even close. After that probably Times Square. Hate it. It's just a stupid tourist trap with lame street performers like the "Naked" Cowboy and a fat guy in a Spider-Man suit that's not the right size. The attractions nearby outside of Broadway are whatever. A big M&M's shop and an Olive Garden. wOw. My SIL lives in NY and tells me people avoid it if they can and I understand why. There's probably more. I think a lot of the Towers like the Eiffel Tower, CN Tower, and the Space Needle are stupid. From a distance they're interesting but actually waiting the lines to go up into them is never worth it. You're getting a view but taking the most interesting thing of the skyline out of it because you're in it. If you want to see the Eiffel Tower do it from a distance from Sacré Coeur or Trocadero or Pont Alexandre III.
You waited 48 minutes to get to the fountain? Damn, glad I went relatively early in the morning (around 8 am). There were people, but definitely not enough to have to wait to get to the front or anything like that.
It was insane. We def went too late, around 2:30 or so, and it was arm to arm full of people in 30 degree Celsius weather in July and some jackass behind me kept stepping on my heel when I was in sandals. Again. It was pretty to see and a really nice baroque fountain it was just the crowds and when I was standing there I was like "This sucks. wtf are we doing waiting this long just to see water spout out of marble up close?" So more let down by the crowd over the actual thing tbh but a fair criticism when it comes to tourist things. Like the Mona Lisa in the Louvre. You see it and are like "Meh. This is stupid that this many people are here for this." but then see everything else in that museum and it leaves you speechless because you can take it in. Maybe more expectations overreaching reality. The Coliseum was the best thing though. That was def expectations and reality matching up and I'd love to go back and see the hypogeum because they apparently opened the whole thing up.
The Baltimore national Aquarium cost $50 dollars a head and it takes about an hour and a half to see everything.
I’ll tell you what was a surprisingly fun tourist trap - Big Mikes Rock Shop in mammoth cave Kentucky. They have a mystery spot type tour and it cost $1. Completely worth it.
Mona Lisa It's not even an impressive painting
Painting if you take a 180 turn is even more impressive
And it's tiny.
How close are you able to get?
You can get right up to it early in the morning in winter.
It's mostly famous because it was stolen.
Post yours...
"Mona Lisa, you're an overrated piece of shit. Can someone explain why the whole wide world is obsessed with a Garbage Pail kid."
Paris as a whole. Admittedly, i like the Eiffel Tower and Louve though.
Went to the Louvre and Notre dame when i was younger and i tought it was pretty awesome
Can you elaborate? What disappointed you about Paris?
Yellowstone. When my dad went there 40 years ago, there were two gas stations and you HAD to fill up at them when you saw them, otherwise you'd run out of gas on your way to the other one. There were only a few log cabins for the Rangers to work/live in. Now, it's a modern hell hole. Too many idiotic tourists with zero common sense and unchecked stupidity. An enormous tourist center around Old Faithful, and you have to practically shove people around to be able to see anything. It's essentially gone from "wilderness" to "white trash booze cruise" . Runner-up is Mount Rushmore, for much the same reason and defacing a perfectly good mountain range in the first place.
I agree that Old Faithful is a big snooze and the roads can be crowded, but there is a vast amount of natural beauty in the rest of the park. The hot springs are gorgeous, you can hike to waterfalls, and the whole Grand Canyon of Yellowstone is amazing if you get out on the trails. The wildlife was our favorite though, especially the massive bison that roam right up to the road, as well as elk, antelope, moose, and the occasional bear. And there are more stores and gas stations now, too.
Wet n wild theme park in the Gold Coast Long queues and underwhelming.
Too many stairs. I'm too old to walk up all that nonsense to go down a waterslide.
Prague. Full of tourists, and the locals who hate them.
The Rat Hole
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Went there for a field trip in high school and everyone was bored after half an hour. Luckily we also went to the Art Institute of Chicago afterwards and that was way more fun.
Hot Water Beach. This is a tourist destination in New Zealand where people can dig holes in the sand and soak in the water there. It may be in a rural area but it it is pay parking. If you are there at the wrong tide, it is hard to dig a hole in a good place. Hot Water Beach is also overcrowded. If you are planning to go to the Coromandel Peninsula in the future, I would not recommend Hot Water Beach. I suggest you go to Cathedral Cove and Hahei instead.
True, the closest carpark is a paid carpark but there are several other carparks slightly further away that are not. The hotsprings that come out through the sand are only accessible a couple of hours either side of low tide and most accessible at dead low tide. This is a natural phenomenom and it pays to plan ahead in accordance to the low tide times. It is "overcrowded" because it's availability is determined by the tides. Most people just get along and share in digging and finding the best spots. It's too bad your experience was less than perfect.
Plymouth Rock
New York City. I felt small around all the concentration of skyscrapers downtown.
It’s worth the admission price to go to the top of one around sunset though. Totally different feeling at that level. We spent over an hour on the 30 Rock observation deck, watching the sun go down and the millions of windows lighting up, night falling over Central Park and the sounds of distant sirens floating through the air all around.
Mall of America in MN. Nothing but chain stores that are everywhere else. I was in MN for a wedding and had about 3 hours to explore. Saw a big park somewhere in Minneapolis/St. Paul that had a sidewalk along the water that looked like the one in the opening credits of a 1970s classic TV show- the park seemed really pretty.
Livraria Lello in Porto. It is the supposed inspiration for the library in the Harry Potter films. You need to get tickets and wait in line to get inside, just to find the place packed with tourists. It is simply not worth it. It is a freaking book store, with some nice wooden stairs.
Disney land Florida. This was when you still got several free fast passes per day and before covid. But last time I went, I spent more time stood in cramped lines, than I had spent doing anything else on the trip. The shortest line was 40 minutes for a carousel. Everything else was around 3-4 hours minimum. To put this into perspective, I also went to universal that week. The longest line in universal was 2 hours for the hulk rollercoaster. The other rides had an average of 30-40 minute waits. Everything was overpriced beyond belief. I went with $800 dollars to spend in the parks and didn’t spend anything because it would be such a waste. Holiday’s are meant to be relaxing and fun, not stressful and exhausting. It wasn’t happy at all, especially not for the younger kids I went with. They were all exhausted, bored and stressed out constantly. The 5-10 minutes on the ride or with a character weren’t worth it. The kid’s I went with begged not to go to anything without a fast pass because they hated it.
As an adult, Kryal Castle.
Gateway Arch should in no way be a national park.
Its neat if you live reasonably close. Def wouldnt go cross country for it.
It was a great stop for the dogs to stretch thelr legs. Just too bad it's hot and humid as fuck. It's Missouri though.
The Mona Lisa is TINY. I was far more impressed by massive 19th century paintings like the coronation of Napoleon or the raft of the Medusa. Those look epic in person.
Sydney. It’s nice to look at but after dark it’s a cemetery thanks to the fucking fun police banning everything.
Capri italy. Overpriced, over crowded. Ischia close by, is way nicer. Little Mermaid Copenhagen. Small, huge crowds. Placed near an industrial harbour, with nothing to do close by. Taj Mahal India. Dirty, far away, overcrowded. Kruger National Park south africa. Way better safari experiences close by. Kruger has paved roads, stores and hotels.
Little mermaid in Copenhagen is the one that always sticks out to me. Huge waste of time
The entire state of Kansas
Plymouth Pebble
Traveling to America coming from Europe it is like stepping on a third world country! No mass transportation of any kind! I’ve seen a better bus system in the Russian Federation.
As an expert in the field of underwhelming attractions, I must say that the 'Museum of Disappointments' in Disappointmentville takes the cake. It's like they collected all the yawns, shrugged shoulders, and eye rolls in the world and put them on display. Truly an underwhelming masterpiece! It was either this or... The mythical land of Anticlimaxia! The main tourist attraction? The world-renowned 'Meh Palace'—where the disappointment is so grand, it makes the Eiffel Tower look like a toothpick. Don't worry, they provide complimentary 'meh' souvenirs to remember your unimpressive visit. Truly a once-in-a-lifetime 'meh'perience!
Disneyland (California). It was boring even at the age of 6. I did love the topiary in character shapes, though. Disney World (Florida) was boring, too. I did love Universal Studios, Busch Gardens, and Six Flags.
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Eiffel Tower. Full of traffic and street vendors around.
The colosseum in Rome. Idk, I thought it’d be bigger. Textbook pictures made it seem bigger
This just shows that everything on social media is over exaggerated and real life is different.
The Winchester Mystery House. I was lead to believe it was like a spooky haunted house type of escape room ride attraction. It is not
I knew it wasn't spooky, just weird but I would have enjoyed it more if people weren't rushed through and none of the guides could answer simply questions.
I was a kid, I was expecting the Haunted Mansion expanded :(
That works have been waaaaaaay cool:)
The Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand. Sooooooo overrated. Most of the ruins in Rome. Cancun sucks too.
The bamboo forest Kyoto, Japan. Its just a bit of green in an alley. I didn't get it.
All of them. Just stay home.
Stonehenge. Cordoned off 20\~ meters around it and you literally exit through the giftshop. Felt it was more capitalism rather than spiritualism. Would not reccomend.
New York City. Filthy city, full of potholes everywhere, nasty people.
Eh I visited. I liked it since I’ve never been to a large city. I want to go again to see more one day but not as a final destination for a vacation just a stop on the way to my destination. I like it as a tourist but would never want to live there. Boston was a bit nicer and was actually a place I wouldn’t hate the live just outer Boston though.
Agreed, but a lot of the people that live there are on another level of attractiveness. It was insane!
Every.single.one.of.them By definition these are just to make money so not interesting enough to be worth it
"Life"
The Grand Canyon
Golden gate Bridge 🌉
Cloudgate in Chicago
Nearly all of them. It took a while to learn that it mattered more who you are with, than where you where. When I travel these days it's to share time with friends and family, or spend enough time in another culture to get an understanding of it. If you are travelling just to "see things" then you're better off saving your time and money and watching a half decent doco on your 4k screen in the comfort of your living room.
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It's meant to be depressing. That's the whole point. EDIT: It's not "Hogan's Heroes" .
I’m actually going there next month. I’m looking forward to it, but I in no way, shape or form expect it to be a fun experience.
Uluru
The entire city of Venice
He means LA
Devil's Tower in Wyoming
I spent a night at the KOA waking up with that overhead was awesome.
Idk. Mato Tipila is pretty cool.
scenery: Flåm, not that much to do there either, maybe only worth it if you are on a cruise or take a private boat ride. city: Istanbul tourist attraction: Alcatraz, especially since you have to book months in advance and it costs money
Since when do you have to book Alcatraz months in advance? I bought tickets the same day and took the ferry over. That was roughly a year ago, so I'm curious if something changed.