Disappointed Tourists Share The Most Overrated Places To Visit

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    Rectangle - r/AskReddit u/tade757 • 1d Join O 15 1 3 19 2 30 What famous place is not worth visiting?
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    Font - mahouko08 1d Atlantic city Monopoly got me good G Reply 1 970 3 Throne-Eins 1d 1 Award Haha, I had to go there for a convention and was like, "Oh, so this is why Baltic Avenue is so cheap!"
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    Organism - Dreddguy 1d Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogo goch in Wales Nothing there except an Edinburgh Wollen Mills shop. Which is just silly as Edinburgh is nearly 300 miles away. 6 Reply 4 5.3k HawkinsT 1d Meh. I went there to take a photo by the train station sign. I got a photo by the train station sign. The whole experience was exactly what I expected and I was completely whelmed.
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    Font - alisoninwonderbread 1d 1 Award Plymouth Rock! I don't know how famous it really is outside of New England but it's a rock that marks where the Pilgrims supposedly first landed in Massachusetts. It is quite literally just a medium sized rock with "1620" carved in it but every elementary school teacher around Massachusetts at least hypes it up for the class field trip to see a literal rock that is not big, impressive, or really historically relevant. Driving an hour on a bus to see this was
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    Font - Judas_Feast 1d Hollywood, it's seedy and disappointing. It's full of entire industries (*cough scientology *cough) that take advantage of starry-eyed twits. G Reply + 3.2k Spite-Funny 1d 1 Award I think what I really liked about Hollywood was how shitty it was. And the Chinese Theater and walk of fame are so much smaller than I expected. The fact that everything looked so much bigger and more glamorous on TV really made the whole thing perfect to me.
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    Product - YellowBernard 1d 1 Award Lands End, UK. Heralded as the 4th most disappointing attraction in the UK. It's not even disappointing enough to win an award Edit: I mean the landmark in Cornwall, not a clothing store. Deary me. 6 Reply 4 17.7k 3 Smauler • 1d 5 Awards If you're going to Cornwall I hear the Bude Tunnel is the one attraction you can't afford to miss. Say Happy Cake Day! 4 7.8k
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    Font - CaninseBassus 1d 3 Awards Hollywood Walk of Fame. It's a sidewalk and outside of maybe big events where they may clean the ones around where photos may be taken, it otherwise is just covered in dirt from people's shoes and some are barely legible because they haven't been cleaned in ages. G Reply 29.8k 3 adrianvedder 1 1d 3 1 Award Haha this is the answer for sure, everytime I'm in LA and someone wants to go l'm like: "Look, whatever's in your head, keep that image, it's just better, I pr
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    Rectangle - Mnemonic22 1d O 27 Awards In 3rd grade a meteor crashed in the backyard of a kid's house in my neighborhood. He talked about it everyday at school and said people weren't allowed to see because NASA was collecting samples. A few days later he said we could go see but everyone had to pay $5. Me and a few friends paid him and went over his house later that day. When we got to the backyard we saw a ~3 deep hole that was clearly dug by a shovel. We called him out on it and he said someth
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    Font - roman_fyseek 1d 4 Awards Time Square on New Years Eve. Just forget it. It has *never* been worth it. 6 Reply 4 45.5k 3 Sawses 1d I remember a radio host I heard as a kid said the following: The amazing thing about Time Square on New Years Eve isn't that you get tens of thousands of people there every year, it's that you get a whole different set of tens of thousands of people there each year. Nobody wants to do it twice, because it's cold and boring and crowded and filthy.
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    Font - yovalord 1d 5 Awards Egypt. Its like if phone scams were a materialized location. You get there an right away the airport is going to start scamming you, take your electronics away and tell you that you need permits for them (which they will gladly sell you, and then tell you that its the wrong one and have you buy another one), the hotel you stay at will check your bags again like the airport did and again tell you that you need permits or whatever random thing they decide they can get a
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    Font - MariachiBandMonday 1d 3 Awards I work close to Times Square in Manhattan. If you have an ad blocker on your computer, you will hate Times Square. 6 Reply * 19.4k 3 Squid_Contestant_69 1d New Yorkers will inevitably say this, but if you're a visitor it's definitely worth a walk through at least once.especially if you're from a small-ish city. It's very unique. Walking through Tokyo though it seemed like every other block was like Times Square with the big bright lights and billboards.
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    Font - HorsesWearHooves 1d Platfotm 9% in King's Cross station, London. Stupid metal statue on a straight wall, a horrible queue to taking a photo with you on it, and another hundred-meter long queue to the small and very expensive Harry Potter shop. I was there middle of the day in off-season, don't want to even think about it on high season. G Reply 4 1.4k 3 moneymarcus90 1d 21 Award Agreed, it doesn't work and it hurts
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    Font - UltimaGabe 1d 1 Award Maybe less famous than the question meant, but about fifteen years ago my friends and I took a road trip to Centralia, Pennsylvania (the abandoned town with a decades-long mine fire burning under it that the Silent Hill movie was loosely based on). We thought there would be tons of abandoned buildings to look at, creepy places to see, adventure to be had- we were so excited, and we were like six or seven hours away so it sounded like a fun trip. We got there, and the
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    Font - Nihiliste 1d Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin. It used to be the border between the US and Soviet sectors, but all that's left of it is a shack and a sign, and the only thing you can do is pay to get your photo taken with someone in uniform. There's a frickin' McDonald's next to it. G Reply 4 7.6k 3 Domowoi 1d There is a museum nearby which is the real attraction in my books. The actual checkpoint is whack ŷ 1.3k 3 sagmag 1d In fairness the checkpoint is literally a checkpoint.. what were you
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    Font - introvert-i-1957 1d You can see Mt Rushmore perfectly fine from the road... No need to pay to see it G Reply * 16.8k CommanderDawn 1d Did you go recently? It was completely redone when I visited in 2017 and people there were saying it was night and day compared to the before. 1 3.5k 3 DorsetBinman 1d When you say redone I'm picturing the facades of Bush, Clinton, Reagan and JFK on the rockface lol
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    Font - InVulgarVeritas 1d 1 Award While the Louvre is amazing and can consume entire days of walking, don't bother fighting the crowds to see the Mona Lisa. It's tiny and has a crowd of tourists dozens deep all taking pictures. "No flash photography" be damned, so all you see is flash reflecting off the protective glass. Also, rumor has it that the real Mona Lisa is in a basement and that the one you see is just a very convincing replica. G Reply 11.9k O coolturnipjuice 1d I saw Starry Night by
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    Font - pHScale 1d The Liberty Bell. You can see it just fine from the sidewalk, and that's about as close as you would get to it inside too. No need to spend meney wait in line to see it. Plus, there's tons to do in Philly besides look at a bell. Edit: I've been informed that it's free. Last time I was there, I was a child, so my memory is a bit hazy.
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    Font - MuluLizidrummer 1d 1 Award Niagara falls is a really cool site but its not worth a trip if youre staying on the American side. The Canadian side is way better and has more things to do 6 Reply 1 18.3k 3 BSB8728 1d I live 15 minutes from Niagara Falls, and our family was talking about this just yesterday. There's a major international tourist attraction right on their doorstep, but the city of Niagara Falls, NY, is a crime-ridden dump.

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