The Sherlock Holmes museum in London is an absolute scam that should be avoided at all costs
Lands End, the surrounding area is spectacular but the the tacky and weird crap at the actual point is just embarrassing.
The London eye is just a waste of money. You can go up Horizon 23 or the Sky Garden for free & get a better view for longer. I have no idea why people do it.
As for Ukraine I think it’s Swallow nest in Crimea. It’s over-hyped and often is pictured as a symbol of Crimea. But in reality it’s just a very bad restaurant on a cliff and has nothing to do with Crimean history or culture. Plus russian occupation doesn’t add any excitement about the place.
Because of that stupid movie, some tourists (disproportionately North Americans) think they’re going to find something at Thermopylae. It’s just a valley. There’s a 1950s monument, but nothing crazy. Likewise, they think Sparta of today is Sparta of back then. It’s not. Umm, the Spartans were known for being *spartan* … They didn’t leave much behind, and the nearby modern city was founded in modern times and mostly built after WWII. Funny enough, there’s lots of amazing historical sites in the Peloponnese region (let alone around the country), but Hollywood decided that only Sparta and its 15 minutes are history.
The Blarney Stone in Ireland. I mean, it’s just a stone.
Stonehenge in England. It was never that big in terms of the pyramids, but they had to stop people visiting because too many were trying to take shavings off as souvenirs. So now you can only go in as part of an organised group. Mind you, it”s near a major road and there is a jam there every day as the drivers slow down and it backs up.
Bit of a controversial one as itās arguably our most famous, here in the north.
You donāt actually have to pay to visit the site itself, however the visitor centre would lead many tourists to think the opposite. You only have to pay to gain access to the visitors centre itself. That does mean however that you have to pay full price if you just want to use the toilet or eat at the restaurant which is frankly, ridiculous. Quite a few visitors are underwhelmed at the size of the site too. The picture on the Wikipedia page is pretty much the site in its entirety.
Literally the biggest attraction in my in laws town is a 2m tall yellow bench… There is like a line to see it every weekend.
Maybe Stonehenge? I mean thereās just more interesting things to see imo although itās good for like a quick roadside stop visit.
If we’re going by disappointed tourists, I’d say The Little Mermaid. Little is in the name, so you’re not allowed to complain it isn’t bigger.
(But it is a letdown either way so don’t bother seeing it.)
Mona Lisa in the Louvre.
NĆ¼rnberg Christkindlmarkt (compared to others in Southern Germany)
Historic thermal spa baths in Karlsbad/ Karlovy Vary (as in: bathing). Hint: there isnāt one. No joke, Karlsbad is a very famous spa town, youād think there would be plenty (I come from a different historic thermal spa region). Nope. We went on a guided tour in the main āimperial bathā. They historically mainly had spa treatments in individual bathtubs. But apart from the disappointment of having brought my bikini in vain, the town itself is gorgeous.
Stone Henge, Durdle Door (you climb all that way for a bit of cliff in a funny shape!), Landās End (they could make more of a thing of it!) and any of the rip off destinations like Madame Tussaudās for England.
For Ireland itās got to be Temple Bar. Avoid like the plague!
It would say the peeing statues in Brussel Manneken pis (the small boy peeing), Jeanneke pis (the small girl peeing) and Zinneke pis (a dog peeing). The statues are all very small.
Barack Obama Plaza, although they did add the Conan O’Brien air pump, so it may be worth having another look at.
Honestly, any landmark in Madrid.Ā
Such an overrated city. The landmarks are meh compared to other areas of Spain.
Not entire Poland specificly, but there is “Castle of Piast Dynasty” in my town
It’s few ‘archetypical peasand sheds’, a wall (‘wall’ is quite generous term here, more like large, mud stairs with logs on one side), pallisade with a loockout tower and diorama of how the castle would look like.
Middle-Of-Fucking-Nowhere in Wessex has ruins of grander castles.
The spire. It’s just a stupid giant pole in the middle of Dublin.
Niagara Falls. While the falls are quite good, the garbage, commercial area that has been contstructed around them is just embarassing (at least on the Canadian side).
Wait, nobody answered for France yet?
Mmmh… Let’s see.
Notre-Dame de Lourdes. No. That one is only overrated if you’re not religious.
Mmmmrfh…
Oh, right, technically it counts:
**Bora Bora**
First, because the next island is Maupiti, which is basically the same but without mass tourism (I’ve been to Maupiti, they can welcome something like 200 tourists at a time). You’ll be alone with the giant manta rays for real. You get to feed the little stingray and let them slurp your feet, and it’s free, it’s the cook ordering you “go feed the fishes with tonight’s garbage”.
Back to Bora Bora: it used to be paradise on Earth yes. And that’s the sad story of mass tourism. French Polynesia is part of France, so I nominate Bora Bora as the most overrated disappointing landmark in France. It is a tragic symbol of our ecological overshoot, it’s an atoll-sized reenactment of “Adam and Eve messing up and being kicked out of Eden”
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Niagara Falls. Not the actual water fall, it’s amazing… but the city sucks.
The Holy Stone of Clonrickert.
Very underwhelming.
Our highest peak is pretty small and too crowded with tourists all the time. There are many more beautiful mountains.
[Himmelbjerget](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himmelbjerget) or *Sky Mountain* šļø
It’s a hill.
The Sherlock Holmes museum in London is an absolute scam that should be avoided at all costs
Lands End, the surrounding area is spectacular but the the tacky and weird crap at the actual point is just embarrassing.
The London eye is just a waste of money. You can go up Horizon 23 or the Sky Garden for free & get a better view for longer. I have no idea why people do it.
As for Ukraine I think it’s Swallow nest in Crimea. It’s over-hyped and often is pictured as a symbol of Crimea. But in reality it’s just a very bad restaurant on a cliff and has nothing to do with Crimean history or culture. Plus russian occupation doesn’t add any excitement about the place.
Because of that stupid movie, some tourists (disproportionately North Americans) think they’re going to find something at Thermopylae. It’s just a valley. There’s a 1950s monument, but nothing crazy. Likewise, they think Sparta of today is Sparta of back then. It’s not. Umm, the Spartans were known for being *spartan* … They didn’t leave much behind, and the nearby modern city was founded in modern times and mostly built after WWII. Funny enough, there’s lots of amazing historical sites in the Peloponnese region (let alone around the country), but Hollywood decided that only Sparta and its 15 minutes are history.
The Blarney Stone in Ireland. I mean, it’s just a stone.
Stonehenge in England. It was never that big in terms of the pyramids, but they had to stop people visiting because too many were trying to take shavings off as souvenirs. So now you can only go in as part of an organised group. Mind you, it”s near a major road and there is a jam there every day as the drivers slow down and it backs up.
Bit of a controversial one as itās arguably our most famous, here in the north.
[The Giantās Causeway.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant%27s_Causeway)
You donāt actually have to pay to visit the site itself, however the visitor centre would lead many tourists to think the opposite. You only have to pay to gain access to the visitors centre itself. That does mean however that you have to pay full price if you just want to use the toilet or eat at the restaurant which is frankly, ridiculous. Quite a few visitors are underwhelmed at the size of the site too. The picture on the Wikipedia page is pretty much the site in its entirety.
Literally the biggest attraction in my in laws town is a 2m tall yellow bench… There is like a line to see it every weekend.
Maybe Stonehenge? I mean thereās just more interesting things to see imo although itās good for like a quick roadside stop visit.
If we’re going by disappointed tourists, I’d say The Little Mermaid. Little is in the name, so you’re not allowed to complain it isn’t bigger.
(But it is a letdown either way so don’t bother seeing it.)
Mona Lisa in the Louvre.
NĆ¼rnberg Christkindlmarkt (compared to others in Southern Germany)
Historic thermal spa baths in Karlsbad/ Karlovy Vary (as in: bathing). Hint: there isnāt one. No joke, Karlsbad is a very famous spa town, youād think there would be plenty (I come from a different historic thermal spa region). Nope. We went on a guided tour in the main āimperial bathā. They historically mainly had spa treatments in individual bathtubs. But apart from the disappointment of having brought my bikini in vain, the town itself is gorgeous.
Stone Henge, Durdle Door (you climb all that way for a bit of cliff in a funny shape!), Landās End (they could make more of a thing of it!) and any of the rip off destinations like Madame Tussaudās for England.
For Ireland itās got to be Temple Bar. Avoid like the plague!
It would say the peeing statues in Brussel Manneken pis (the small boy peeing), Jeanneke pis (the small girl peeing) and Zinneke pis (a dog peeing). The statues are all very small.
Barack Obama Plaza, although they did add the Conan O’Brien air pump, so it may be worth having another look at.
Honestly, any landmark in Madrid.Ā
Such an overrated city. The landmarks are meh compared to other areas of Spain.
Not entire Poland specificly, but there is “Castle of Piast Dynasty” in my town
It’s few ‘archetypical peasand sheds’, a wall (‘wall’ is quite generous term here, more like large, mud stairs with logs on one side), pallisade with a loockout tower and diorama of how the castle would look like.
Middle-Of-Fucking-Nowhere in Wessex has ruins of grander castles.
The spire. It’s just a stupid giant pole in the middle of Dublin.
Niagara Falls. While the falls are quite good, the garbage, commercial area that has been contstructed around them is just embarassing (at least on the Canadian side).
Wait, nobody answered for France yet?
Mmmh… Let’s see.
Notre-Dame de Lourdes. No. That one is only overrated if you’re not religious.
Mmmmrfh…
Oh, right, technically it counts:
**Bora Bora**
First, because the next island is Maupiti, which is basically the same but without mass tourism (I’ve been to Maupiti, they can welcome something like 200 tourists at a time). You’ll be alone with the giant manta rays for real. You get to feed the little stingray and let them slurp your feet, and it’s free, it’s the cook ordering you “go feed the fishes with tonight’s garbage”.
Back to Bora Bora: it used to be paradise on Earth yes. And that’s the sad story of mass tourism. French Polynesia is part of France, so I nominate Bora Bora as the most overrated disappointing landmark in France. It is a tragic symbol of our ecological overshoot, it’s an atoll-sized reenactment of “Adam and Eve messing up and being kicked out of Eden”