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

I've come across a few throughout the country, but South of the Border on I-95 is probably my number one

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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.