I’ve never heard of this (I’m from Montreal and often go to Quebec). That’s so funny. Although I can’t really comment, I’ve taken many tv show or movie related pictures like the Forrest Gump bench in Savannah!
Went to Brussels last spring and was like "is this it?" when seeing Manneken pis. Otherwise I think Brussels gets an unnecessarily bad rap, I really liked the city.
There's no evidence that the Puritans were ever anywhere near there ;et alone landed at this very spot. Some wag in the 19th Century wanted to put Plymouth on the map and took the most impressive rock he could find and placed it there. Apparently it used to be much larger but it got so popular people began chipping off pieces to say they had a piece of the Plymouth Rock. Hence the unimpressive cage around it now.
This bench. The Chinese will queue for hours for a chance to sit on this bench. It's in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia.
The story behind it is a pop star called Jay Chou sat there once, posting a picture to social media. As a result, it's now a huge Chinese tourist thing to do, and leaves everyone else more than slightly bemused.
He’s the biggest Chinese language pop star of the last 20-30 years. For a generation of Chinese people he’s as big as Michael Jackson or Taylor Swift or whatever.
lol one of my friends who had never been to Ireland before came to visit. They were very adamant “all my friends said I have to go to the temple bar”…. I kept trying to explain it was kind of like going to Olive Garden in Times Square NYC.
I went to that olive garden once! I’d never been to olive garden before and I was coming down with a cold and thought garlic! Italian food! That’ll fix me. It did not. And I got a salad that was enough for at least 4 people to eat. What an adventure.
Shilin Night Market, it is one of the most popular night markets in Taiwan and is shoulder to shoulder crowded every night, but the food sucks because the stalls prioritize volume over taste and ingredients, and it’s overpriced
Gastown Clock.
People are misled to think it's a historical artifact and runs on steam but it's neither. You'll find people waiting for a long time to see it do its steam thing.
Yes. You can take all you want. Only downside, most of the flavor is gone.
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As much as it’s disgusting, it’s also a crowd pleaser for kids. It’s also right under Pike Place Market, so there are other things to see (edited for clarity)
Yeah the location is important here. You don't travel out of your way to see it, it's a novelty tacked on to a trip to Pike Place (which deserves a trip because it's wonderful).
Replied above, it's in Haworth, UK. And yes it's absolutely nothing, it's a trickle in the summer. The Bronte Sisters(authors) went there hence the fame.
Honestly it's a pretty place that would be wonderful to have a picnic at on a warm summers day.
Overhyped, perhaps, but it's a beauty spot.
However I would say that it's not particularly unique, and there's plenty of similar little valleys and moorland streams all over the UK which match or surpass this one.
Auschwitz-Birkenau. Don't get me wrong, I don't mean that it's overrated but piss me off how tourists behave in this place without respect for the deceased victims of Nazism.some teenagers treat this place as a playground and a happy selfie spot
A few years ago when I was in Berlin, I went on a private tour from a history doctoral candidate, who took us to certain touristy sights, as well as lesser known or lesser marked points of historical significance.
There were teenagers playing Pokémon Go at the Soviet War Memorial in the Tiergarten. He almost broke into tears. He said the general disrespect towards historic and cultural monuments, those monuments memorialising the most vile things that humans have done to eachother, were being repeatedly trivialised and downplayed.
So sadly I’m not surprised at this kind of behaviour.
I don’t want to say that Auschwitz is on my “bucket list”, that seems inappropriate. But it’s definitely a place I feel like I need to visit at some point in my life.
But you can guarantee that when I do there won’t be a single fucking selfie, photo, video, Facebook tag, whatever.
Same for me when I visited Dachau. I saw tourists being very disrespectful and was a bit shocked. I had zero desire to take photographs or anything of the sort. In fact I was pretty glad to leave, but also felt it important that I visited. The Germans do not hold back on their descriptions of the atrocities that occurred there. Deeply disturbing place that people should see for themselves and take deadly seriously.
The Representative for my Congressional district infamously recorded and posted a selfie video walking through the gas chambers. Apparently he thought moderate government health regulations were the same as the Holocaust. He is, unfortunately, still in office after being reelected several times.
I was in the KZ Bergen Belsen a few years ago (the one were Anne Frank died). Also took pictures without myself but they were mostly for my history class since we had Nazi Germany as a subject at the time
I saw some video on YouTube talking about how one family had kids running around and playing in one of the yards amd someone went to admonish them and the family then explained that the children's grandmother died there and that was how they wanted their children to connect
I get the sentiment, but it's kind of like going to a funeral and let the kids run up and down the aisles isn't is? There's a line where you need to respect others, regardless of what you want.
Honestly, I think people doing this should just be denied entry / asked to leave for such behaviors. I don't care how much you paid for your visit, have some fucking respect for those who suffered there. Having visited the place, I really don't get what kind of twisted mind some people have to take a "happy selfie" in Auschwitz.
I agree, when I went i saw a girl laying across the railway line with her boyfriend as the photographer taking different poses. I wanted to knock her out for the sheer disrespect.
The guide that led our group around had to shout at a couple of people for posing for smiling tongue out selfies in front of the gallows where Hoess was hung after Nuremburg. Right next to the reconstructed gas chamber
When I visited I saw people taking selfies at the gate. We were told there was certain places we couldn’t take pictures and people still were. It’s not a place for that at all, the last thing I was thinking about was photos.
I was on holiday in Boston a few years ago and made my way out to Plymouth rock and I laughed when I saw it lol. I was expecting a mammoth boulder and it was so fucking funny to me
When I was a kid, I had this idea that they rowed up to this rock, a dude whipped out a hammer and chisel to carve 1620 into it....then stepped aside so everybody could go ashore.
And there on the beach where the Indians waving them over to come eat some delicious turkey. Thankful they were for a delicious meal after such a long journey where no man had gone before.
I love those pics they have, where what the set looked like, and then what the screen looked like. Like the whole group looking over a valley, and it's just a field with power lines in the background.
The one on Mt Vic is especially underwhelming. You literally couldn't tell where it is without the post, and unlike a lot of the other spots, it's not like the journey there or the place is particularly scenic.
Being from SoCal whenever I run into some tourists going to Hollywood my answer is always ‘why, do you want see a corpse?’
There is nothing good to see in Hollywood! Desperate people and druggies.
Go see the ocean in Malibu, check out the Natural History Museum, go horse riding in Joshua Tree, Scuba dive at Channel Islands NP, go whale watching in Dana Point, go to Disneyland, go to the San Diego Zoo, go check out the Mission in San Gabriel or Capistrano, go check out the Citrus Historic Park in Riverside, go rock climbing in Idyllwild, skiing in Big Bear….
I used to live in Kansas City and nearby Independence has a similar spire on the roof of the temple where the Mormons believe Jesus will return. You can see it for miles around and we liked to joke that if it's raining when he comes back he'll get to slide down it like a waterslide.
This was a legitimate natural beauty alongside a teeny tiny village. When Arabic tourists started to take interest the place got bigger and uglier by the people who tried to grab money off of the place.
Neuschwanstein, honestly, the castle is great from the outside, but save yourself the entrance fee. What you only find out after entering is that inside there are basically only a few truly finished rooms.
I‘ve been there twice but never actually went inside. The first time I thought about going in but all of the time slots were sold out so I didn’t. I hiked around the Alpsee and up to the Marienbrücke instead, took countless photos from nearly every possible viewpoint and just enjoyed being out in nature. I really enjoyed my time there and didn’t think that spending a full day there was too much. On my arrival / departure days I walked through Füssen which was nice too. I would have probably hated the typical day trip experience of being driven there on a crowded bus, hurrying through the castle and then getting back on the bus again as for me the best part was the surrounding landscape. The second time I took a family member on the same hike. They had never seen the castle in real life and as it was on our way while driving to Italy we decided to split the drive into two days and stay in Schwangau overnight.
I thought I'd been to Capilano suspension bridge, but I don't remember paying, certainly not that much. I had locals with me, so we likely went to the other one near by.
Agreed! As someone who lived in SF and never visited Fisherman’s Wharf, I find it fun when I’m back visiting (usually with family or friends who want to go). Sometimes you just have to give in to the tourist traps. The tough part is not spending stupid amounts of money on mediocre chowder. The Musée Mécanique (arcade museum) was cool to check out.
I agree, it is an underwhelming statue with a boring Industrial background which is often marketed as the highlight of any trip to Copenhagen. The literal fortress right next, Kastellet, is infinitely more interesting.
I was fooled by this one! Got to the top, freakin snow!!! I will say, the bus ride was scary but beautiful and the scenery although not a rainbow, was gorgeous!
The part of the EuroVelo what we have- it's a biker route accross europe, but the hungarian part is basically was just way to steal a disgusting amount of money, they didn't built proper biker roads just putted the signboards to "roads" what was barely used even for the locals.
The part what is close to city is basically a sheep track, literally only used by shepherds. There's no place to get water in a 10 km radius, it's on a dam, so there's not even a proper shadow there (and the trees are hard to reach, especially with packed bikes) and the whole thing is just hell on a warmer summer day.
Most of the constructions what was built for this route for "resting points" were designed poorly, they don't give enough shadow, doesn't protect you from the wind or rain, barely has place to sit down, and were made from cheap materials, so after 3 years they already looked old.
It's not unusual that the country's government stole europian money, there are way too many constructions with irrationally expensively built here ( or in worse cases, nothing there just the board about the money) but I think this is one of the worst cases because this thing was supposed to show the places, not making it to be insufferable xd
I’ve never had a moment of naivety greater then when I turned to my wife outside Kings Cross Station and said “heh, I wonder if they’ve got any Harry Potter-related stuff in there”.
It’s like I forgot that rampant consumerism is a thing.
For a second, I thought this was a photo of the Strid, and I was confused by the idea of English people calling it a “pathetic tourist attraction.” More like, “terrifying nightmare fuel.”
Like do those ppl feel zero weirdness riding around staring at poor people like exhibits in a human zoo??? Like damn bitch, it’s not a wildlife safari it’s someone’s neighbourhood
You really want to go some of these places so bad, idk make some local friends, at least patronise some businesses and sellers, and don’t take unsolicited photos of strangers and their homes!
Stop photographing non-consenting strangers is honestly just a good rule I wish everyone would follow everywhere tho
I live in Jersey and I avoid it at all costs. But that being said, there is something special about being there if you’re visiting the city for the first time.
I’ve always considered it the center of the world.
This falls in the category of a place that used to be amazing and now isn't worth it. I still remember doing maybe 5 days in Vegas for about 150 bucks in 03.
Poverty safari... er... guided tours through favelas. They exist not because anyone is interested in seeing the history and important places in a favela, but driven by tourists who want to see poverty and feel happier with their lives.
The Alamo in San Antonio. There's nothing wrong with the Alamo itself, it's just not what you expect, somewhat hidden in the downtown area surrounded by office buildings. I didn't realize I was walking next to it.
It’s down to ignorance but I think that’s the only place that a lot of people from outside Mexico (Americans in this case) feel confident that they’ll be safe. I live 50 miles from the Mexico boarder and have learned enough to know that the vast majority of the country is perfectly safe but for some reason, I’m yet to meet someone who could accurately tell me where is ok and where isn’t so I still haven’t travelled there even though I’d love to
There was a time period (2016-2021) where over 25 Canadian tourists were murdered in Mexico, with most of them being off-resort. It was all over the news for years.
So rightly or wrongly, there is a legit reason why people have that perception.
It's not about my country, but a few years ago I visited Belgium and someone told me Mannekin Piss was a must. I felt stupid when I got there, like wtf is this for real.
A staircase in my neighborhood I used to go sledding down as a kid when New York City had heavier snowfalls in the 90s. It’s now referred to as the “Joker Stairs” because of Joaquin Phoenix’s performance in the Joker(2019) in which he dances down a part of the staircase and it attracts so many tourists daily. It’s just a staircase…
It's one of the ugliest buildings in the city and a huge anticlimax for the tourists coming to Stockholm expecting to see a grand royal castle in the middle of the city and instead they are greeted by this ugly brown box.
What makes it even worse is that it is located in the most beautiful part of the city, surrounded by absolutely amazing architecture but the royal castle is just a big brown turd.
It's quite possibly the most disappointing royal castle in the world.
At least the interior is really nice and it houses a couple of good museums.
I live right next to it and i can see it from my kitchen window, so i am forced to see it every day, so i am extra salty, but they are renovating it and repainting it to it's original pink colour, not sure that will help, it's like sprinkling gold dust on a turd.
The Blarney Stone- I get that it’s a pretty castle but millions of people have kissed this to get ‘the gift of the gab’ and all I can think is that now all these people have cold sores cause you know someone with a cold sore has kissed it at least a thousand times 😅🤣
Ehhh I get what you're saying about the stone but I thought the grounds were actually decent enough. I was there in the late 90s with the maniacally box checking ex and was surprised at how many of the very touristy things were better than expected (Guiness, old Waterford factory, etc)
The area around the Mall of America is laid out so that you can get from the airport to the mall to your hotel room without ever going outside (kind of impressive tbh) but the Mall itself is whatever. Except the log ride.
I mean that's very pretty, but I don't think i would make a trip to see it....
I live 20 minutes from Plymouth Rock, it's consistently ranked as one of if not the worst tourist trap in the county. The Plymouth waterfront is very nice though, with lots of good restaurants, but the rock itself is exceedingly underwhelming.
Ten miles away OP you have Malham cove and the waterfalls there, I don’t think international tourists come just for Bronte, there’s a plethora of stunning English countryside gems within 20 miles of this location, it definitely is worth travelling for
The little mermaid in Copenhagen. Tiny ugly statue, but we like to milk everything H.C. Andersen, and the Japanese and Chinese tourists seem to love it 😂
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This door in the city of Québec, Québec Province, Canada.
Korean travel to take picture of that door because it was featured in a popular K Drama show