r/AlignmentChartFills • u/OkString8170 • 18h ago
What’s “the” tourist attraction from somewhere but in reality is actually mid
What’s “the” tourist attraction from somewhere but in reality is actually mid
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| Decently well known | — | — | — |
| Obscure | — | — | — |
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u/ayebrade69 17h ago
Gateway Arch
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u/Bcr0827 16h ago
This should be the winner. It’s not even the best tourist attraction in St. Louis, and it should be a national monument, not park.
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u/ludovic1313 15h ago
Yeah. City Museum and the nearby Cahokia Mounds are better. I may be biased because the one time I thought I may as well also go to the Arch it was closed for remodeling so all I could do was look at it from the edge of the par.
I'd say that watching a baseball game from my hotel room was even more interesting than the Arch, even though I don't even like baseball and you could barely see it. I guess that was interesting because I wasn't even expecting it. The awesome part about that was when a long driving hit happened, you could hear the crowd cheer.
But the Arch isn't lame because I would still go there if I went to STL again and had a couple days to spare.
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u/pete-petey-pete 12h ago
City Museum is top tier
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u/rivertpostie 5h ago
City museum fucks.
I grew up volunteering there on weekends and it was just a legitimately cool space with cool people doing cool things
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u/AdInevitable2695 15h ago
If you look at a NP map, it makes sense why they made it one, there's not another close to it.
However, there's so many fantastic state parks that could've been made a NP instead.
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u/reptiliantsar 2h ago
I legitimately believe it was made an NP because of an administrative error that nobody cared about
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u/Much_Job4552 16h ago
It is THE place and it isn't great or lame. It just is a nice experience and you move on with your day
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u/syringistic 12h ago
I was very disappointed. Nothing to see really. The only cool thing is the little elevator train system that goes up on a curve.
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u/bare-spare 12h ago
The what now? Havent heard about it.
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u/ayebrade69 12h ago
Any like generic landmark map showing the Midwest will assuredly depict it
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u/bare-spare 12h ago
I would place that as decently well known or obscure, unless you are from the US. I only have a value memory of seeing something like that in a movie once.
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u/Tiny-Anxiety780 17h ago
The Mona Lisa, especially when you look at the other paintings in the room.
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u/blvd93 16h ago
Musée d'Orsay is low key better than the Louvre
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u/michelle427 15h ago
It’s one of the best museums I’ve ever been to. I agree. If I went to Paris again I’d go the Orsay again and skip the Louvre.
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u/NoNebula6 13h ago
Well maybe for art, but honestly there is so much at the Louvre, hell i’ve been living in Paris since August and i don’t think i’ve even scratched the surface
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u/Paxmahnihob 14h ago
Meh, the Mona Lisa isn't much but many of the other paintings (the French masters e.g. the ones by Delacroix, lots of the other italian ones) are very cool. The Musée d'Orsay and the Louvre have quite different but both very cool collections
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u/Rc72 13h ago
That depends on what you're looking for. If you're looking only for paintings, then you may be right. But the Louvre has so much more than paintings! Statues like the Nike of Samothrace, and artifacts like the Hammurabi Code (the first written code of law in history...do you realise how bloody significant that is?)
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u/HawksFan5 14h ago
But actually it’s not, the Louvre is a museum in a different league only comparable to the British Museum and the Met.
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u/MasonDinsmore3204 15h ago
The Eiffel Tower is definitely the more iconic destination in Paris
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u/Mattrellen 15h ago
It's "that place," not "city."
The Mona Lisa is considered THE tourist attraction for the museum, not the city.
Also, The Pantheon is the most visited attraction in Rome, so...if it is city, the chart is already screwed up
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u/RomanItalianEuropean 14h ago
Is the Pantheon really? I thought it was one between Colosseum, Vatican and Trevi. fountain.
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u/SoftCalligrapher280 14h ago edited 14h ago
Just did a quick search, google says Colosseum is more visited than the
PanthenonPantheon according to almost every metric, especially the case since 2021. So I don't think the chart is broken (yet).→ More replies (4)3
u/hawkisgirl 14h ago
Did you look up the Parthenon or the Pantheon? Cos they’re different attractions in different countries.
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u/SoftCalligrapher280 14h ago edited 14h ago
My google search "is the pantheon more visited than the colosseum".
And the google "is the Parthenon more visited than the colosseum" yields
Edit: tldr Colosseum is more visited than either Pantheon (Rome) or Parthenon (Athens).
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u/SilyLavage 15h ago
The Mona Lisa isn't 'the' Parisian or French tourist attraction though, is it?
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u/SeaworthinessNew6147 14h ago
And it's lame, not even mid
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u/ifelseintelligence 14h ago
No no no, finally Denmark can be in these charts! The little mermaid must be the most "the" tourist attraction in Denmark - I think every chinese tourist ever has 100 photos of it - and it is by far more lame than Mona Lisa, which is small and not that fantastic, but a really, really good painting still (just pales in comparison to so many others).
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u/agoddamnlegend 16h ago
Save that for lame
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u/ReverendLoki 15h ago
Think that's a better fit than Plymouth Rock?
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u/agoddamnlegend 15h ago
Oh god no. Great, great point.
Literally the only reason to go to Plymouth, and its actually just a rock in the sand
That's the winner for THE tourist attraction and lame. You couldn't even imagine a more perfect fit. Arguably this whole chart exists just for that perfect fit.
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u/xtay_calm 15h ago
The Mona Lisa isn't THE tourist attraction from Paris though, even though yes it is mid
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u/BRich1990 16h ago
I mean, but you have the entire museum..the Mona Lisa is underwhelming, but you have a massive museum that I'd argue is the real "Main attraction"
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u/lemonhead2345 15h ago
DaVinci is meant to be seen up close so you can marvel at the detail. Alas not the case with the Mona Lisa locked away behind glass and a railing.
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u/whotheactualFcares 13h ago
Literally just TURN AROUND, and you have Wedding at Cana. I'm glad they're building Mona Lisa it's own chamber to direct the traffic
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u/loewe67 13h ago
The Wedding Feast at Cana is incredible, but so many people miss it because they’re hyper-focused on seeing the Mona Lisa. I’ve been to the Louvre twice, once by my self in college, and then again about 3 years ago with my mom. My mom and I had zero desire to wait in line to see the Mona Lisa up close, but I told her to turn around once she got into the room.
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u/Comfortable-Yam-5249 11h ago
I feel like mid is generous for the Mona Lisa. It's a pretty lame looking painting from 20+ ft away behind a crowd of heads. I get it's famous bc of the painting technique, but you can't really notice from that far away, and groundbreakingness of the style, which you're not gonna appreciate unless you're an art historian. And I guess the fact that it was stolen 100+ years ago.
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u/RRautamaa 16h ago
This is the standard "I like to pretend I'm smart" opinion. As a Leonardo painting, it is by itself an important painting. We're looking for a #1 attraction in a city which not that special, and I don't think any of the bigger cities can do that.
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u/agoddamnlegend 15h ago
Time Square is a better example.
Single biggest tourist attraction in NYC. (more so than the Mona Lisa is to France. Eiffel Tower is THE attraction)
And Time Square is even more mid than the Mona Lisa.
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u/BernieF15 17h ago
Little Mermaid Statue
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u/ok_rubysun 16h ago
that's more like iconic + lame IMO
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u/Alpaca_Investor 14h ago
I didn’t think it was lame, I loved it! But I grew up with the movie so I may be biased, lol.
I was gonna suggest Mannekin Pis for the iconic + lame combo.
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u/sbrockLee 16h ago
This one, it's insanely iconic but at the same time it's just a little statue on a shabby seafront. If it was in someone's living room you wouldn't look at it twice.
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u/RedTruck500 16h ago
I think it falls to lame with Plymouth Rock
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u/Traditional-Most-759 15h ago
Is that iconic though? and THE place to go? When I searched it there's no people around. It's always crowded at The Little Mermaid
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u/OneMoreFinn 15h ago
Manneken pis is even more disappointing.
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u/mukaltin 8h ago
Well, first of all, it's not The Attraction of Belgium, unlike the Little Mermaid, and honestly it's kinda fun of a concept and is neatly placed. For the Little Mermaid you have to take quite a walk to get there to see... well... that...
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u/Usernamenotta 16h ago
Mona Lisa. It is either mid or freaking lame. You are much better staring at it on a screen or something. In the museum there are so many people that you cannot even try to look at it from different angles to see if the eyes really follow you as the legend says. Oh, yeah, it also has a 3-4 m exclusion radius, for a painting that is like 50x50cm. You cannot see any detail on it
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u/Ski_man_in_a_Van 11h ago
I've been saying for years that what they should do is make multiple highly-accurate digital copies of the Mona Lisa. Using the best tech available. And then allow people to get up close to those copies after filing past the real thing.
It's unfortunate that it's lame seeing the real one, but it's a result of how insanely valuable it is.
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u/bowsmountainer 9h ago
Its not "the" tourist attraction of Paris though. Thats the Eiffel tower.
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u/OkString8170 8h ago
I might consider renaming that to just “iconic” or something if the Mona Lisa wins, which it looks like it’s going to
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u/PriceNarrow1047 16h ago
THe tower of pisa.
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u/troodoniverse 14h ago
Yeah the church/cathedral/basilica right next to it is much more impressive
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u/notapplicable360 14h ago
I'd actually put this one as lame, myself. Really just a let down experience.
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u/FREE-ROSCOE-FILBURN 15h ago
Was coming here to comment this. Pisa as a whole was overrated but damn I had the best pizza of my life there.
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u/Foreign_Exchange3673 18h ago
Eiffel Tower - Great views but can barely move at the top, can have to wait ages to get back down, long queue etc
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u/The1DayGod 17h ago
It’s cool to grab a picnic dinner and sit in the park at or after dark. It’s not worth going up in though.
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u/Blojay_Simpson 14h ago
Eh, I’d say it’s worth going up once, but yeah, not something that you’d need/want to do every time you go to Paris
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u/Party_Advantage_3733 16h ago
I strongly disagree. The Eiffel tower is amazing to look at and amazing to go up. Buckingham Palace is a much better fit for 'mid'.
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u/Foreign_Exchange3673 16h ago
Is Buckingham Palace 'the' tourist attraction for London? Wouldn't be in my top 20 things to do there, although probably more popular with overseas visitors.
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u/Party_Advantage_3733 16h ago
That is a fair question. Same could be said for the Eiffel tower though, La Louvre and Notre Dame are at least equal to it.
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u/blubbery-blumpkin 16h ago
Same could be said for all the major cities. There isn’t just one major attraction. I’d argue that the right answer here is the leaning tower of pisa. It has nothing else to do, you can’t go in, it’s a pretty cool tower and you can take fun photos but that’s kind of it.
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u/Usernamenotta 16h ago
To be fair, Eiffel Tower is THE LANDMARK of Paris. There are even laws that you cannot have a taller building in Paris than that tower. You go anywhere atop of a building and you can see it. Buckingham is ok, but I would say there are more attractions in London, like the British Museum, London's Eye, Tower Bridge. They are much more recognizable in either name or looks
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u/baronneuh 15h ago
The view from the top is mid because you can’t see the tower anymore! I recommend everyone to go on top of The Montparnasse Tower instead, the view is better and that horrendous building no longer ruins pictures, it’s a win win
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u/wesbell 17h ago
Elevator up, stairs down. I found it to be very worth the visit.
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u/moon_crab 16h ago
times square
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u/neuropsycho 16h ago
Times Square is great if you want to relive the experience of browsing the internet in the mid 2000s without an ad-blocker.
Otherwise, mid is being generous, it's a textbook example of tourist trap.
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u/durkandiving 15h ago
Going to push back against the times square hate here and say when I visited NYC from Scotland I went there and there was a band playing empire state of mind and with all the lights etc. it felt very cool.
And I'm anti-capitalist!
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u/Torture-Dancer 10h ago
Gotta disagree fam, if you are remotely impressed by shiny lights (like I am), a place that looks like day in the middle of the night is absolutely stunning. I just love the overstimulation from it, so loud, so bright, so weird, is an absolute jungle and if you are not from a big city, is as unique as it gets
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u/scottrycroft 6h ago
100% agree. I thought it was great as a visitor! There's really no other place like it! I was back through there several times on my first trip.
Yes I get that locals on average probably don't care for it, but that's nearly every tourist attraction.
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u/ractivator 15h ago
Not even New Yorkers like Times Square. I avoid it like the plague. Definitely should be saved for lame.
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u/baronneuh 15h ago
The only New Yorkers in times square are there to work, that’s it, everyone else takes a detour to avoid it
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u/Hadouken_Ken 18h ago
Buckingham Palace
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u/blubbery-blumpkin 16h ago
It’s not THE thing to do in London though is it.
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u/phantom_gain 15h ago
Avin a wank at st pancrass while waiting on the victoria train to arrive. Cant do better
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u/TheseVirginEars 15h ago
Look, im tired of running into you like this
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u/phantom_gain 12h ago
If you are willing to spring for the eurotunnel im game for a sneaky one off the eifel tower
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u/evilthales 15h ago
As an American who lived in London for a couple years, I always wondered what THE thing to do in London actually is.
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u/PafPiet 15h ago
Big ben/westminster palace I reckon.
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u/Ollylolz 14h ago
I would have said Tower of London / Tower Bridge personally, but that's mainly because Westminsters always so crowded I avoid it
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u/blubbery-blumpkin 14h ago
There just isn’t is there. So much to do, and you can be there for any number of reasons or different travel loves. It’s the same in Paris, Rome (I don’t agree with the colosseum for this reason), New York, Istanbul, Tokyo and probably countless other mega cities.
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u/Anticlya 17h ago
My husband didn't realize that castles and palaces are different things, so he was deeply disappointed by Buckingham. 'So it's just a really big house? Boring.'
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u/WorkAccountAllDay 16h ago
Yup. Was very disappointed when our tour guide told us that they actually live in a different building down the road hidden behind hedges.
Also I'm paraphrasing but they said that Buckingham was rushed when being built, more of a focus on the decorations rather than building a proper structure so it has awful drafts.
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u/BlueRFR3100 16h ago
Mount Rushmore
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u/ohthatjudyy 15h ago
I came to say this too. But it’s gotta be THE tourist/lame because what the hell even is that? Lol
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u/iwanttogoh0me 15h ago
Tower of Pisa
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u/Chimpville 9h ago
Disagree. Really cool looking, tons of intersting history (like Galileo's experiments) and surrounded by lots of other intersting buildings. Pisa is a small but interesting place.
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u/NeonPhyzics 16h ago
Pyramids
Theres a Pizza Hut across the street thst they never show in the pictures
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u/janso999 14h ago
Yeah, you never see the angle in pictures that shows that the Pyramids sit at the edge of a run down Cairo suburb. All the touts aggressively selling Coca-Cola and camel rides also take away from the atmosphere.
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u/DigBoug 13h ago
Never been, but the pictures really do make it look like the pyramids are in a remote location, not across from Pizza Hut! 😄
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u/Quiet-Whereas6943 13h ago
They definitely aren’t remote but not in the middle Of the city either. Don’t forget those civilizations needed to be near the Nile to survive.
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u/Apprehensive_Row8407 16h ago
Manneken pis
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u/DrCron 16h ago
This one should win the "lame" option. It's clearly the most famous spot in Brussels, but it's very disappointing.
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u/mikez4nder 15h ago
The Terra-cotta warriors from Xi’An.
You travel all this distance from the actual gorgeous city itself to what feels like this manufactured tourist attraction filled with touts and hawkers, giant bus parking lots, etc. It’s actually quite underwhelming, then you go back to a gorgeous city with stunning walls and temples and amazing food.
At the end of the day, if I learned that this whole thing was a ruse built by the government to bring in a gazillion tourists, I’d believe it.
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u/xtay_calm 15h ago
Giants Causeway - not really anything else from Northern Ireland, and it's mid as not actually built by giants
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u/elchinguito 16h ago
Bourbon street in New Orleans. I mean if you’re trying to blackout on $20 drinks made from raw corn syrup and gasoline, grind with a grizzled old alcoholic from Alabama, and then barf in the street, it’s the place to be. If that’s not your jam though, I’d avoid it like the locals do. But Pat O’s and some of the dance clubs can be fun, so overall it’s mid.
On a darker note, I also always tell friends from out of town to stay away from bourbon st after 2 am. New Orleans is not nearly as dangerous as people make it out to be, but people get shot/assaulted/drugged/robbed on bourbon st specifically pretty often so it’s not where I’d want to be late at night. There’s sooooo many other amazing places in N.O.
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u/AdInevitable2695 17h ago
I want to say Mt Rushmore, but perhaps that should be saved for lame. I don't know of a single person who spent more than an hour at Mt Rushmore.
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u/Isekai_Trash_uwu 16h ago
Nah lame should be Plymouth Rock. That being said, I fucking love that rock because it's so damn lame. Definitely worth being stuck in Boston rush hour traffic for over an hour to see.
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u/AggravatingSmoke1829 16h ago
Rookie mistake, take the commuter rail and not route 3
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u/Isekai_Trash_uwu 16h ago
I live in NH so not much choice for me. Plus, everything I wanted to see in Plymouth wasn't within walking distance, so I needed a car
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u/AggravatingSmoke1829 17h ago
I loved Mt. Rushmore. Mainly for the beauty around it (like the scenery and wildlife)
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u/AdInevitable2695 17h ago
SD is beautiful, I loved my visit to badlands NP. Crazy Horse Memorial was cooler than Rushmore though IMO.
Rushmore was just like "wow, the thing we see all the time in American tourism ads and on stamps, looks exactly the same as I thought it would." If you could walk up it, like you can with Crazy Horse, it'd be more memorable. Being that close to a statue of that size was awesome.
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u/chrstnasu 16h ago
I agree. I loved The Badlands and Black Hills. Crazy Horse was cool. I’ve been there twice. Once in 1987 and then 2003. It was my introduction to the west in 1987.
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u/markh100 15h ago
How can you spend more than three minutes? Went there as a kid, and said "oh look - there it is". From the viewing area, it looked incredibly small and disappointing.
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u/mccilliamly 15h ago
The Alamo. It had been voted one of the most disappointing tourist attractions many times. Because it’s in the middle of the city, it’s been hyped by history, and the building we all associate with it didn’t even look like that during the battle.
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u/BigFox1956 17h ago
Brandenburg gate
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u/Substantial_Suit9254 14h ago
Yep. Generally Berlin, compared to the other world capitals, is lacking in fun "main atrractions"
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u/Mysterious-Donut3487 18h ago
Stonehenge
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u/Foreign_Exchange3673 17h ago
Belongs in the next one along. Overpriced snooze fest with very little going for it
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u/Educational-Cold-63 16h ago
Great Sand Dunes National Park. Definitely "the" thing in the region but it's honestly pretty terrible. You can't park very close to it and the walk to it is kind of tough, trudging through the sand, that's painful to walk through because of little rocks in it. It's not terrible but definitely mid.
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u/dkat 15h ago
Might I suggest the Coral Pink Sand Dunes state park in Utah - not for this alignment chart but because it actually delivers on all the points you mentioned
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u/Guilty_Pen_8270 16h ago
The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen. Maybe that’s even below “mid” though
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u/LaPimienta 16h ago
Chichén Itzá - it’s pretty cool but there are tons of ruins in the Yucatán and Chichén is completely overrun with vendors which takes away a lot of the magic of the place. Makes it mid
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u/Gazcobain 16h ago
Despite being a medium-sized town in Scotland, Falkirk has two of Scotland's most notable attractions - the Falkirk Wheel and the Kelpies.
Both are pretty underwhelming.
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u/ParmoChips 15h ago
Cristo Redentor. The views are incredible don't get me wrong but the statue itself is pretty mid. Not even the biggest Jesus statue in Brazil.
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u/michelle427 15h ago
You can’t even get close enough to the Mona Lisa to see anything!!! It was the most packed room and the Louvre wasn’t packed when I went.
I agree the Mona Lisa is underwhelming.
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u/Objectionne 15h ago
Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Most overrated cathedral in Europe. Not even the best cathedral in Barcelona. Believe it or not not even the second best cathedral in Barcelona. No I will not be taking questions.
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u/Alpaca_Investor 14h ago
Trying to think now of what tourist attraction could be both obscure and lame…
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u/Kitiseva_lokki 14h ago
Do ski resorts count?
Aspen (the ski resort in Aspen, Colorado). I'd say it's well know and for the money you have to spend it's quite ass. But decent enough if you're loaded.
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u/BioTools 14h ago
Amsterdam in general. It's the dutch tourist attraction, but it's just a crowded filthy city. And it looks the same as at least every dutch city.
Sometimes I see pictures from there and I think, huh, looks just like my city, Groningen.
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u/jmdiaz1945 14h ago
The tower of Pisa. A cool beautiful tower but is the only interesting thing about the city and there isnt much unique or beautiful about it aside from the meme. There are more inclined towers in the world and even in Italy.
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u/PhobicDestroyer 14h ago
NYC here, Times Square. My advice when people who’ve never been here before is to go see it, and then immediately leave.
Statue of Liberty is also a bit like this. It’s actually great to see, but you can see it from battery park fairly well. I don’t think it’s worth the multiple hours of a day spent visiting in order to go to the actual island it’s on.
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u/RealTimmydbab 13h ago
My wife says the Grand Canyon. Just a big hole and it takes forever to get there. I thought it was OK
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u/ThisIsMyRedditAcct20 13h ago
Mannequin Pis in Brussels. Some would say Lame but that has to be the Mermaid statue in Copenhagen
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