"Plastic City Full Of Plastic People": 30 Tourist Trap Cities To Reconsider Visiting

Key West. We stopped there on a cruise and my friends joked about how many T-shirt shops we could walk into.

Hey if you're 21 and want to drink your ass off and chase.. whatever, I guess it's great. With a one year old in stroller, biggest vacation mistake I ever made!

I'm surprised I've only seen one mention of Wisconsin Dells. If doing touristy nonsense is something you enjoy, this place is a banger. Pirate themed mini-golf, two massive water parks themed on the bible and greek mythology, respectively, gimmicky dining options like a "lumberjack breakfast" and food delivery by train system, more sweets and novelty shops than you can count, a hybrid boat/bus tour, a couple escape rooms, an acade/waterpark/movietheater/african safari themed hotel, a deer petting zoo/reserve, and a fantasy themed timed scavenger hunt.

Pigeon Forge TN.

Pigeon Forge 50 years ago was nothing but a few pancake houses and the coolest campground with a little tubing river running through it. We camped there when I was young there. Great memories. Nothing like today.

Deadwood, SD. Everything was generic. The food was trash, the nature was monetized, hardly any long trails.

Wisconsin Dells, I see a lot of people posting Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg, I've been to both and would hands down take those two over the Dells. Its out of date and super expensive. The person at Mt Olympus checking me in even warned me my wallet was f****d. There is fun to be had but over priced and out dated.

Tombstone, AZ. Cheesy "museums" with third grade dioramas, expensive "saloons", and the goofiest recreation of the gunfight at ok corral done by ancient hippies. Laughable. Tourist. Trap.

Plymouth Rock. I’ve never been but it’s literally some random rock. And I’m pretty sure it’s not the actual one.

I grew up in Plymouth, and it’s just a rock and there is no actual one, they just threw a monument around a rock. That said it’s still a pretty nice coastal New England town with some museums and decent seafood.

Intercourse Pennsylvania. It got famous off the name and then got turned into a tourist trap. There’s nothing to do there other than a little fake town and it’s not worth going out of your way for.

Egyptian here and I would say the pyramids.

That’s exactly what an Egyptian I knew in College told me back in the 90’s when several of us mentioned wanting to see them eventually. He said if any of the s really do want to go stick to a reputable tour group.

I suspect it’s similar with Ancient Greece places, Herculeum and Pompey and the Pryamids in Mexico.

Gary, Indiana. 

u/Uglyangel74:
Born, raised and worked in Gary. Been on a 40 year decline. Miller beach is ok. Rest is sad.