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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Branson, overall, is a blast. Highly recommend it for some inexpensive family fun. I used Save On Branson and got major discounts on everything.
The scenic railway was a snooze. The food was average but the waitstaff were great.
At one point it may have been fun, but that was 30 years ago before the trees blocked the view.
I liked the World of Coca-Cola. This was probably twenty-five years ago, I don’t remember whether it was that interesting or not, but I had gone to the top of Stone Mountain earlier that day, and it was blazing hot. At the end of the Coca-Cola tour, I was able to drink my fill of any ice-cold Coca-Cola product I chose. And there were dispensers that would squirt an perfectly-sized arc of soft-drink a good ten feet or more into your cup.
Someone doesn’t like Legos, Ripleys, science centers and Pigeon Forge in general.
What about the World’s Largest Ball of Twine?
That’s because you were never locked in the building at night and found yourself followed by the footsteps of the ghost of William Herschel. Had to call the VP to come and get me out.
I ground a telescope mirror at Adler in 1960 and spent a vast amount of time there as I was engaged to the optics instructor. After I graduated college, I worked there for six months before the city caught me as a Republican election judge in a Democratic patronage job.
I gave hallway lectures on the Rand McNally globe and polished gold and silver astrolobes, as well as filing the oldest astronomical texts. It was NOT boring from my side of it. (Oldest alarm clock involved a sundial and a small cannon)
I DID check out on the Zeiss, but this was 1967 when I was told that I couldn’t do Zeiss lectures because I was a woman and the audience wouldn’t accept a female authority figure voice in the darkness. Sigh. There was a reason so many of us got hooked into early feminism.
I LOVED Adler!
Astronomical Images - Prince of Denmark’s March - Jeremiah Clarke
https://youtu.be/CCTOCCJ2Ixg
I enjoyed the Witch Museum in Salem. I had several ancestors in prisons up there for witchcraft. Assume they were just unpleasant personalities. Luckily for my existence, they all got out safely.
And I did enjoy the Hershey museum because I couldn’t have imagined a vat of chocolate that big swishing back and forth. I say this with a box of Hershey cherry kisses on my desk.
My wife and I enjoyed it. Aside from what I thought was the single best thing about it, people everywhere who are mostly conservative, Christian, and MAGA, the two attractions we enjoyed the most were the Sight and Sound Theater (just fantastic) and the self-guided golf cart tour at the Top of the Rock at Big Cedar Lodge. In fact, Big Cedar Lodge was a great place to just hang out and relax.
>>U.S Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL.
That WAS disappointing. Don’t know quite what I was expecting, but not that. I’d been running a conference in South Carolina early in that trip and we’d had our banquet on an aircraft carrier, the USS Yorktown. THAT was exciting.
Why do you say that?
I was excited by the Gateway Arch because I got pictures while it was under construction.
C&TS RR Best scenic railroad candidate
In New Mexico: Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, National Historic Landmark.
Was this in Jena?
Adler Planetarium?
I once worked on a database that was used to track all the items in their collection - got to learn all about classifications of astrolabes. Thought it was a pretty neat place.
For the ultimate letdown, take a day out of your way to go see Plymouth Rock ;-)
13. Museum of Ice Cream New York City
Brandon is REALLY PO’d his favorite place is ranked “boring.”
LOVED you Adler story. Very exciting.
YES! Plymouth Rock! I just stared in disbelief on our one and only visit. Not just boring. Heartbreaking disillusion as great as learning there was no Santa Claus.
These rocks were NOT boring.
Star Trek - Rocky Mountain High - John Denver
https://youtu.be/EBgyuRVeqtk
Mostly boring to Tipper Gore
The most boring/overrated places I have ever been were Tianenmen Square, and the Forbidden city in Bejing.
We should have gone to the wall instead.
The white pagoda wasn’t much better.
>>>Was this in Jena?
Completely confused. No idea what this means.
Tell about the Forbidden city, please. That’s a place I always thought I’d love.
I bet the “Bruce Lee musuem” in HK is #21
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