What's the worst tourist trap you've stopped at?

The fucking state of fucking Florida.

I've driven past South of the Border easily a dozen times in my life.

I've never been tempted to stop.

I wave at Pedro as I pass by at 70MPH

I'm not sure if it was the pseudo "olde-worlde" village in a warehouse-like building at Bigbury Bay (Devon) or the tacky eyesores around Land's End. I don't know if the former still exists.

The village of Cheddar Gorge (i.e. just down-hill from the caves) is up there in the list somewhere, though not too bad. It just becomes very crowded. Not to be confused with the unassuming town of Cheddar itself, half a mile or so away.

Town-planners sometimes call places like those, "honey pots".

I have always avoided the worst traps, but have no reason to visit them anyway, such as "theme parks" (Yes Walt, I do include yours).

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Anyway there is plenty of tacky even well away from the scenic places; and not just "vape" shops and amusement-arcades. The view from the M5 on Sandwell Viaduct is hardly elegant, a giant sprawl of factories, backed by ugly, 1960s, high-rise blocks of flats. Over the years though it slowly cleaned itself up, helped by a goodly number of big, mature trees. Than someone goes and gives permission for giant, digital advertising-hoardings on tall poles above the viaduct. One or two even obscure the motorist's view of the road-signs ahead, especially at night. Who the Hell thought these brightly-illuminated, electricity-hungry horrors even necessary? Crudely-made advertising hoardings on lorry trailers next to the M6 through the pleasant Cheshire countryside, are just as bad.

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An item on the radio recently reported the efforts to restore Oxford Street, the main shopping street through Central London. Once a vibrant (and expensive!) tourist spot with big-name shops like Harrods, it had apparently become rather down-at-heel with a lot of tacky, American-style "candy stores" moving in. These were real sweet shops, though very expensive, but their existence was found to have been exploiting the property tax laws. Now though, the Greater London and Borough Councils, and property owners, are making big efforts to restore the road, and most of the "candy" and similar shops have gone.

It seems a similar story applies to Edinburgh's equivalent, the Royal Mile.

South of the Boarder was a tourist trap back in the late fifties and has gotten no better just bigger. I live in North Carolina so I drive by on occasion

Wall Drug is pointless.

The Corn Palace.

Florida. Screw politics, the state is a helhole. Nice beaches do not make for a great place. Your wallet requires rape counciling when you leave.

Besides Niagara Falls, Ontario?
Actually, the worst stopped at a mall in our city. It was a tractor trailer - the admission was a dollar if I recall. It was carting around what was purported to be the African Queen from the movie of the same name.

Stonehenge was pretty rubbish

Agreed. South of the Border is the worst.

The expensive ones that don't concession for carers. Yeah, I'm not enjoying your stately home... like you, I'm there WORKING, why make me pay to do my job???

Is that Annapolis in your photo?

I live nearby.

Isn't South of the Border a Mexican Restaurant?

Queenstown being a tourist trap. Haven’t been there since 03. Including everything there is expensive.

Right. I've never been a place that was so less than expected.

What border?

Well, of course a lot depends upon what you are looking for -- what is rubbish to some (or even the majority) can be the kitsch others are looking for. But the two that come to mind for me are Niagara Falls (I guess there actually are some falls somewhere behind all the fast food joints, billboards, and other crap) and the Outer Banks. To illustrate my first point, we expected to spend a week in the Outer Banks because my wife enjoyed the descriptions in all the romance novels she had read. We got one gander at all the strip malls and fast food joints that we couldn't leave fast enough to just wander through North Carolina, where we stumbled upon Mt. Airy, the inspiration for Mt. Pilot in the Andy Griffith Show where everything is tourist oriented based on the TV sitcom. Definitely a tourist trap, but an enjoyable one, imho.

Disney. No doubt.

Dominican Republic. As we walked down the street the shop assistants were grabbing our arms and trying to pull us into their rather dismal shops.

Times Square

Tijuana….

https://iowa80truckingmuseum.com/

San Francisco

Everyone thinks Australia has beautiful beaches the only beach they know is Bondi beach , and all other beaches are too far , or you have to go in another island to get to an actual beach, I reckon other countries have better beaches including USA and Europe

the Space Needle in Seattle was much smaller than it appears and the surrounding area is filthy dirty

Time-share BS in Las Vegas. Why am I on this bus...wtf is this sh!t!

Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

The USA.