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
It was low budget but they only charged the equivalent of a few bucks in the mid 1980s. What Amsterdam does have is outstanding art museums, a thousand years of architecture and the amazing canal system. You have to see Van Gough's paintings personally to appreciate how he made them with three dimensions in mind, layering up the paint where he wanted highlighting.
Then I stopped at a cafe' there and...Whoops! Where did all that time go? (cough cough)
Never been to any of them, but I did drive past the UFO Museum in Roswell about 20 years ago. I thought, “hey, there’s a UFO museum.”
The city block it was on had alien heads for the globes on all the street lights.
Yikes!! I have NEVER been to ANY of these!!
The Branson scenic railway tour would be a great one to put all those folks who keep claiming “humans are overpopulating the world, we need more carbon-sequestering trees to stave off global warming,” on. Put them on board and keep them there until they recant.
Wisconsin Dells feels left out
This is the only attraction on the list about which I am personally qualified to opine.
Visited it in 2014 with my 15-year-old daughter.
It provided an experience exactly conforming to an enthusiastic 15-year-old's tastes and expectations.
It was a little pricey, I felt - but it's only 90 minutes long. A small sacrifice to make a kid happy.
Regards,
I’ve been to the London Dungeon (1989), and yes, it was pretty boring.
I guess somebody just got sick of stepping on Legos® all the time.
Or of spending money on all those stupid Lego® kits.
Science museums and planetariums are more for kids nowadays.
But like bad movies, boring tourist attractions are a bottomless pit — there’s always something worse somewhere out there.
12. The London Dungeon
46. Ripley’s Believe It or Not! (St. Augustine, FL)
And the Rocket Center Hunstville, AL, even though it’s not on the list.
I did not find MagiQuest boring.
I don’t necessarily want to return but I think kids might find it appealing.
I remember dad driving us through forests in Arizona and the Ozarks back in 1957. Boring for as a ten year old kid we could not see the forests for the trees. Finally a break in the trees and we saw the beauty of each.
I’ve been to Shepherd of the Hills which was not bad, and the UFO museum in Roswell. Since I once live at Roswell before the UFO craze I knew it was all just a tourist trap designed to draw in tourists after the Walker AFB closed. I would also add the Bottomless Lakes State Park to this list.
Ping
Methinks these people don’t get out much beyond their hood.
Best thing I’ve ever gone to is the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland.
I have to agree that these are indeed major snorefests. However, the 1880 Train in South Dakota is a neat experience. The locomotives are 100+ year old steamers and the scenery is beautiful. Not exactly everyone’s idea of a good time, but it has its charm. I would suggest instead another South Dakota “attraction” as worthy of this list of boring places, the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD.
PS…I was born and raised in South Dakota.