Tourist Attractions That Disappointed People

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Eric Lund
Nov 5, 2021 10:00 PM EDT

We're not so uncultured that we'd go see a national monument booming with historical significance and complain that it's boring, but at the same time Mount Rushmore is way smaller in real-life than how people make it out to be. Also, Plymouth Rock sounds like it straight up sucks. For some real ignorant tourist shenanigans, here are some obnoxious things done by American tourists.

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    Font - thegreatoutdoors79 · 20h e The Pyramids - not because they weren't amazing, just because of the sheer volume of tourists clambering up them like ants. That's the thing with these attractions. You always imagine them to be so stunning because they're pictured without crowds, but when you get there and it's crammed with thousands of people, it does feel like you imagine.
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    Smile - didnsignup4dis · 21h Stonehenge. Literally drove past it and was like 'haha that looks like a lame version of Stonehenge' and dad was like 'thats Stonehenge'.
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    Font - Omny87 - 16h Plymouth Rock. It's just a rock. It's not even a very big rock, or a weird- looking rock. Just a big gray lump the size of a beanbag chair with "1620" carved on the side. I didn't pay anything to see it and I still felt ripped off. Nice pizza place nearby though.
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    Organism - case31 · 20h e The Mona Lisa. Now, The Louvre is amazing. However, seeing the Mona Lisa is disappointing. You go to a relatively narrow hallway, and there is a pane of glass 15 feet in front of the painting. I understand that it needs to be protected and preserved.
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    Font - Laprasnomore · 20h The Hollywood strip. Filthy, smelly, hyperdermic needles out in broad daylight... I'm not squeamish, but it all screamed tacky, tacky, tacky.
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    Smile - JayJayFrench · 16h Marineland. Not 1 soldier, just a bunch of sea creatures.
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    Font - MinorityBanana · 12h JEK assassination site. As a young Canadian, I knew next to nothing about American politics and the significance this president may have had. On top of that, the site is literally just a painted 'X' on a roadway that is still used, so there's just tourists running into the middle of the road to take pictures between vehicles trying to get by.
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    Rectangle - bulldogclip · 13h Los Angeles In general was a let down. (I'm.from Australia). I mean it was cool too see some of the places. But the traffic was enough to put me off ever going back, unbelievable. The drive from LA to San Francisco though, amazing.
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    Smile - OttieandEddie · 20h 4 Corners Monument. It is the intersection of Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona. It's just a sidewalk and a gift shop. I guess I don't know what I was expecting, but it's about 5 seconds of fun.
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    Font - Squirrels-Are-Jerks · 20h Times Square. It's been Disneyfied to holy hell. Who the hell goes to NYC to eat at a KFC and then go to the NFL store? There's this saying that Times Square is the one part of Manhattan actual New Yorkers never go and I totally get why.
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    Rectangle - Paco_Thee_Taco · 20h Pisa, the city is a large tourist trap and the food is very disappointing compared to smaller villages and cities in Italy. It's great for a 1-2hr stop while on the train but not much else from a tourist standpoint
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    Font - Arcinbiblo12 · 19h The Alamo. It's completely surrounded by shopping districts and tourist traps that absolutely dwarf it.
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    Mammal - bhages · 14h The Liberty Bell is surprisingly small, considering how they made it sound in elementary school. I waited in line for 45 mins to see an...average bell? With a small crack...?
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    Font - WanderingGenesis · 20h O 2 S Plymouth Rock was the dumbest ..iking thing I ever gotten taken on a school trip to see. 6.3k 5 Reply Share Report Save Witty-Message-2852 · 13h · edited 13h I literally scrolled down to find this. I live in the area, and went to downtown Plymouth a few years ago to drink with friends. Parking in the summer is a nightmare, so I parked near this weird colonnade thing. I wondered what it was and went to check it out..and it was Plymouth Rock. It's the saddest li
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    Font - OmegaBaby · 15h · edited 14h Great Salt Lake. It stank and the shores were covered with mats of brine flies. I guess I was expecting Lake Michigan but saltier.
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    Font - TheRelevantElephants · 19h Wall Drug, South Dakota You'll see billboards for it the moment you drive into the state. And they're amazing things like a cowboy boxing a trex and it says "200 miles to wall drug!" So naturally, after seeing billboards for that long you're super amped. Then it's coffee for a nickel and a t shirt shop. Cool.
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    Font - moodyfloyd - 20h Black Hills are awesome, but don't hesitate to skip the trip Mount Rushmore.
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    Font - RuPaulver · 20h Times Square is like the worst part of NYC. Literally just big bright billboards. There's nothing to do there. There isn't even good food there. Just consider the fact that this is NYC and one of its biggest attractions is a stupidly busy Olive Garden.
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    Font - LeafyMagician - 17h I was really disappointed by The Statue of Liberty. It's cool but WAY smaller than it's made to look in movies/pictures. 216 Reply Share Tlizerz · 13h There's that scene in the movie Cloverfield when the Statue's head comes crashing down onto the street. When the filmmakers initially screened the movie, the head was true-to-size, but viewers said it looked fake because they thought it was too small. They had to bump it up 50% so that it would look more “realistic."
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    Font - worseforwhere · 14h The Skybridge at the Grand Canyon. It's a 2 hour, one way, trip where it costs $60 a person to enter the reservation, then another $60 to enter the park, than another $50 for the Skybridge.
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    Font - stonesthrowaway24601 · 18h Mount Rushmore. Every picture you see makes it look larger than life, but in reality, it only takes up a small portion of the mountain (which is expected, considering the original idea was to have the presidents' full bodies carved from the rock). Not to mention the park to see it is super far away, so you need binoculars to see it well and the fact that said park was overcrowded, can't say it was fun to see.
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    Hair - PeanutRecord698 · 13h Space needle , when you grow up in Seattle it's just another f. .king skyscraper
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    Font - My-Lizard-Eyes · 14h Old Faithful. Don't get me wrong, Yellowstone is breathtaking overall, but seeing bleachers filled with hundreds of tourists cheering for like a 25' tall geyser was so ridiculous I left early to beat traffic leaving the parking lot.
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