Saturday, April 11, 2020

Overrated Tourist Traps?

Got hooked reading one of those terrible online clickbait pictorials, this one “Most Over-Rated Tourist Attractions in Every State.” More like most overrated clickbait article, am I right? This gem was obviously written by some superior Gen-Z “journalist” who is easily bored and not easily impressed, who surely missed the spirit and fun of most of these landmarks – America’s treasures all. I’m sure a vast majority of less-jaded Americans would love to see each and every one of these places.

Why am I not surprised the Creation Museum / Ark Encounter made the list? Anti-Christian media bias.

I wanted to see which landmark made the list from Georgia, so I had to go through the whole darned list to find out. Not sure why some states made the list twice, and other states not at all (only 36 are represented). In alphabetical order.

Which ones have you seen / would like to see?

Alabama Cullman’s Ave Maria Grotto
Alaska: Santa Clause house
Arizona
Arkansas Crater of Diamonds state park
California Hollywood sign SEEN
California Hollywood Walk of Fame SEEN
Colorado Buffalo Bill’s grave
Colorado Four Corners Monument WANT
Connecticut
Delaware Rehoboth Beach boardwalk
DC huge gum wall (not hygienic).
FL Epcot Center SEEN
GA World of Coke (too crowded?) SEEN
Hawaii Waikiki Beach WANT
Idaho’s Craters of the Moon state park
Illinois Chicago’s Magnificent Mile SEEN
Indiana NCAA Hall of Champions
Iowa Captain Kirk’s future birthplace
Kansas world’s largest ball of twine
KY: Creation Museum and Ark Encounter WANT
Louisiana
Maine’s “desert”
Maryland Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum
Mass: Boston’s Quincy Market SEEN
Michigan
Minnesota Mall of America (too crowded)
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska’s Car-hinge
New Hampshire
NJ Atlantic City
NM Roswell / UFO’s WANT
NM Four Corners Monument
NY Times Square SEEN
NV expensive Venetian gondola rides WANT
NC “shell” station in Winston Salem WANT
North Dakota
Ohio house from “A Christmas Story”
Oklahoma
Oregon Undersea Gardens (closed-see?)
PA Liberty Bell – how un-American! WANT
Rhode Island Viking Tower
SC South of the Border WANT
SD The Corn Palace WANT
Tenn Graceland SEEN
Tenn Beale Street in Memphis SEEN
Texas: forget the Alamo WANT
Utah Four Corners Monument
Utah Moqui Cave
Vermont Rock of Ages quarry
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wyoming
Wisconsin Cheese Castle

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