Pretty much the entire city imo.
What's the most overrated and annoying attraction where you live?
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"Bourbon Street"
It's definitely overrated although if you can't buy beer on Sundays where you come from I can understand the novelty. My real beef is the automatic association people make. Say 'New Orleans' or 'Mardi Gras' and Bourbon Street is the first thing that comes to many people's mind. It's quite annoying as a local as it only represents a drop in the bucket in relation to what NOLA offers tourists. It's mindshare with relation to Mardi Gras is doubly annoying as most people associate the holiday with booze and flashing. For the other 99.8% of the city, Mardi Gras is a family-friendly affair with parades down beautiful St. Charles Avenue and many other locales in the Greater New Orleans area.
It's definitely overrated although if you can't buy beer on Sundays where you come from I can understand the novelty. My real beef is the automatic association people make. Say 'New Orleans' or 'Mardi Gras' and Bourbon Street is the first thing that comes to many people's mind. It's quite annoying as a local as it only represents a drop in the bucket in relation to what NOLA offers tourists. It's mindshare with relation to Mardi Gras is doubly annoying as most people associate the holiday with booze and flashing. For the other 99.8% of the city, Mardi Gras is a family-friendly affair with parades down beautiful St. Charles Avenue and many other locales in the Greater New Orleans area.
The Coke Museum (as in, Coca Cola)
What an adventure into snoresville THAT is.
This.
Whenever my girlfriend's family visits us, they always want to do all the tourist things. In this fashion, I've become pretty familiar with the different sites in Memphis. The Coke Museum is one of the most boring.
I also think Beale Street is a bit overrated. It's a lot of fun, but it's nothing more than a row of bars. I like going there sometimes, but I see people who travel hours to hang out there, and it's just not worth all that fuss.
You mean there are TWO of them?
OH. MY. GAWD.
"My" Coke Museum is in Atlanta.
ONE of these most-tedious-of-sites is bad enough. And now you are telling me there are TWO????
The Mall of America. I wish they'd tear it down and rebuild Met Stadium. Then they could get rid of another eyesore, the Metrodome.
I'd have to say Roswell. There really isn't much to see there except for a couple of silly novelty stores, a tiny museum that's falling down, and a goofy-looking McDonald's. Yet anyone and everyone who comes to visit wants to go there.
I might say the Very Large Array if Contact wasn't one of my favorite movies.
Then there's the Trinity Site. While certainly cool, it loses points because it's only open two days a year.
I'm with ya.
I might say the Very Large Array if Contact wasn't one of my favorite movies.
Then there's the Trinity Site. While certainly cool, it loses points because it's only open two days a year.
I'm with ya.
"My" Coke Museum is in Atlanta.
You know, I've always been curious as to what's IN the Coke museum. I mean, there's only so many bottles from different eras you can display. What else is in there?
Disneyland.
"My" Coke Museum is in Atlanta.
You know, I've always been curious as to what's IN the Coke museum. I mean, there's only so many bottles from different eras you can display. What else is in there?
Oh, quite a bit really. I've been there and it's OK, but I'm not eager to go again. Yet everytime we visit Atlanta (my husband's sister lives there) she alllllllways wants to take us there.
Anyway, you can see how Coke is bottled...you can see vast quantities of Coca-Cola memorabilia through the ages...you can see Coca-Cola-themed art (really)...you can taste Coke from around the world (it's not the same everywhere, which was probably the most interesting thing I learned there)...and so on.
As for most overrated attraction here, it's probably the Indianapolis 500 track and museum - although actually "overrated" really isn' the right word to use. Because don't get me wrong, the museum is actually really cool...if you're interested in automobiles and racing. If you are, it's very nice indeed. But if you're not - and most of our visitors are not - there isn't much to interest you there, seeing as it consists of cars and racing memorabilia and the only people who are interested in cars and racing memorabilia are people who are, yes that's right, interested in cars and racing.
Yet everybody who visits wants to go there because the Indianapolis 500 is literally the only thing they know about Indianapolis. So it's not overrated, it's just not for everybody. Try telling my aunts that, though.
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"My" Coke Museum is in Atlanta.
You know, I've always been curious as to what's IN the Coke museum. I mean, there's only so many bottles from different eras you can display. What else is in there?
I would suspect such a place to have a great collection of memorabilia, like old vending machines and dispensers and glasses and posters and clocks and pens and key-chains and whatnot...
I have a friend who's a collector of that stuff and probably would love to see the museum
"My" Coke Museum is in Atlanta.
You know, I've always been curious as to what's IN the Coke museum. I mean, there's only so many bottles from different eras you can display. What else is in there?
Oh, quite a bit really. I've been there and it's OK, but I'm not eager to go again. Yet everytime we visit Atlanta (my husband's sister lives there) she alllllllways wants to take us there.
Anyway, you can see how Coke is bottled...you can see vast quantities of Coca-Cola memorabilia through the ages...you can see Coca-Cola-themed art (really)...you can taste Coke from around the world (it's not the same everywhere, which was probably the most interesting thing I learned there)...and so on
Hmm, Coke should put out a special 6-pack called "Coke Around the World". They'd make a fortune from curious people like me wanting to see the differences.
I have a friend who's a collector of that stuff and probably would love to see the museum
Take him to the Pepsi museum instead, and see if he can tell the difference.
^ You are DEAD to me.
Here, there's not a lot to rate highly in the first place. It's Houston. Everyone knows it's Fugly.
But, if I had to pick, it would be the Reliant Stadium. It's a giant, white-elephant eyesore. And, frankly, the football team sucks ASS, so who the hell cares? Even the name--the Houston Texans--is the dumbest, most unimaginative name in all of American Sports.
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I worked there for over 2 years; there's no magic there. All drama and petty bullshit.
I have a friend who's a collector of that stuff and probably would love to see the museum
Take him to the Pepsi museum instead, and see if he can tell the difference.
She's an addict, never far away from a can of Zero -she'd know!
Via Montenapoleone and the whole Fashion District here in Milan. I really cannot understand wandering around stores that are far too expensive to enter, let alone shopping in. Do people like to be kicked in the nuts, too? 
When I was in London this summer I spent a whole day inside of it: they had to take me out by force when it was closing. I just loved the place.
You live near the British Museum? Can I live with you?
When I was in London this summer I spent a whole day inside of it: they had to take me out by force when it was closing. I just loved the place.
I used to enjoy going to William Wilberforce House when I was a kid, scared the crap out of me with their replica of the inside of a slave ship, with the noises and moans, etc. Plus there was all the period stuff from the house when he lived there.
How it's all bright and colourful and big information boards, with the odd period piece in a glass case. Ruined it for me.
How it's all bright and colourful and big information boards, with the odd period piece in a glass case. Ruined it for me.
I was thinking of various museums and stuff in Philly (there are no tourist attractions in Delaware unless I want to point to Dover Downs or the beaches) and ended up concluding that they're either worth the hype or basically unknown anyway.
But the one tourist attraction that stands out to me are Pat's King of Steaks and Geno's across the street. They're OK cheesesteaks, although significantly overpriced. But they have blocks around the corner at all times of day (well, the smart lines are around the corner, they sometimes go into the street where they can get run over by people driving down Passyunk). Seriously overrated, even if they were important for the history of the cheesesteak. Almost every person from Philadelphia refuses to answer the question of which one is better.
But the one tourist attraction that stands out to me are Pat's King of Steaks and Geno's across the street. They're OK cheesesteaks, although significantly overpriced. But they have blocks around the corner at all times of day (well, the smart lines are around the corner, they sometimes go into the street where they can get run over by people driving down Passyunk). Seriously overrated, even if they were important for the history of the cheesesteak. Almost every person from Philadelphia refuses to answer the question of which one is better.