Posted on 04/18/2024 6:28:21 PM PDT by simpson96
The last thing any tourist wants is to buckle up for a boring attraction.
So a new study that reveals 'the 100 most boring attractions across the globe' serves a useful purpose for those keen to guarantee a holiday free from the mundane.
America, it seems, needs to up its game on the excitement front, with attractions in the country occupying the top seven spots, beating Shrek's Adventure London into eighth place. And four Legoland Discovery Centers make the top 25.
The ranking, by Solitaired, was drawn up by an analysis of 66.7million Google reviews of 3,290 popular tourist attractions worldwide, spanning 384 cities across 71 countries. Researchers calculated a boredom score for each site by focusing on 11 keywords indicative of tiresome, lifeless and boring impressions, to determine the least interesting.
Branson Scenic Railway in Missouri takes the undesirable top spot as the world's least interesting attraction, with a boredom score of five out of five. Departing from an old depot in downtown Branson, the heritage railroad travels through part of the Ozark Mountains on a 40-mile round trip.
While some reviewers on Google praised the 'beautiful' foliage and 'magnificent' vistas, others were unimpressed by the views' limited to trees on both sides of the train' during summertime, with 'Sheena Youngers' commenting that they were 'a little bored after a while of just seeing treetops'.
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But here is the top 20:
1. Branson Scenic Railway
2. Illuminarium Atlanta
3. Jurassic Jungle Boat Ride -Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
4. Salem Witch Museum - Salem, Massachusetts
5. Lego Discovery Center Atlanta - Atlanta, Georgia
6. Adler Planetarium - Chicago, Illinois
7. Museum of Science & Industry Tampa, Florida
8. Shrek's Adventure London
9. Legoland Discovery Center Dallas
10. Legoland Discovery Centre Toronto
11. Telus Spark Science Centre- Calgary,Canada
12. The London Dungeon
13. Museum of Ice Cream New York City
14. The Shepherd of the Hills - Branson, Missouri
15. The Hershey Story Museum - Hershey, Pennsylvania
16. WA Museum Boola Bardip - Perth, Australia
17. International UFO Museum - Roswell, New Mexico
18. Torture Museum - Amsterdam, Netherlands
19. Phillip & Patricia Frost Museum of Science - Miami
20. MagiQuest - Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
P.S. I have visited the Adler Planetarium twice (only once by choice), and in spite of my interest in astronomy, it is indeed quite boring. It’s more like a stale old museum, with very little that caught my interest.
Al Gore’s mansion?
I have been to pigeon forge where some of the worst places are. Just write off pigeon forge, period. Dollywood is ok, the island was fun for my son with the multistory zip lines but the rest can suck an egg as they just suck your money badly. I did want to stop at the smoke mountain knife works but the misses did not want me spending the gas money to get home.
I’ve seen the Witch Museum in Salem MA. Admittedly, it was back in the 90s, but I thought it was interesting, not boring.
I have also seen the Hershey museum. I thought it was OK. Maybe I just don’t have high enough expectations for entertainment. I don’t know.
I will say that, for me, the most overpriced and under delivered attraction I have seen is the Winchester mystery House in San Jose California. Big-time waste of money.
Really, I’m not saying there are not gems among the stores buried/located in Pigeon Forge but 98% is not worth it.
The Mike Dukakis Museum...Brookline,Massachusetts.
Branson Train? Ridiculous and insulting.
Also underwhelming was the U.S Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL.
Not all attractions can be as good as ‘The Thing’ in Arizona.
Missing from the list is the Underground Tour of Seattle. What a joke. Walking through somewhat connected unfinished basements while someone tells you that some naughty things went on down there like, oh my gosh, bootlegging and prostitution don't you know.
Dukakis? Can I get a picture of myself riding in a real tank? That would be worth the price of admission.
It was the kind of place where space explorers could have landed around 1963.
It seems a little USA heavy. I guess the journalist’s budget didn’t include much air travel.
The most interesting things in the US are the ones God made.
We used to go to a truck show in Pigeon Forge and the host hotel (Grand Hotel) won the title of the worst maintained hotel in the country. In about 1999, a chunk of concrete sloughed off the side and landed on the promoters wife’s brand new car that still had the paper plates on it.
LA to San Diego-—along the coast-—and there is nothing but shrubbery, trash, and closed alternative railroad lines. Yuck!
Did the Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota make the list?
The Space Needle in Washington State.
The Gateway Arch in Missouri.
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