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Dr.Smasher posted:I haven't been to Door County for many years now. I wonder how overrun it is with condos now, it was getting pretty overwhelmed in the mid 2010s. All the cool, good little restaurants were closing and getting bought out to become rich douchebag restaurants. I try and get up there once a year. It hasn't changed much in the past 30 years. Restaurants do come and go, but they've still got all the original fish boils and other local owned joints. They really aren't on a building boom up there. Maybe the people who own the land aren't willing to sell, or there are other restrictions making it untenable
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grill youre saelf posted:I too, was part of the Noah's ark crew People like you and me know that Cave Of The Mounds is not an insult to a location but is actually a pretty place.
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Has anyone mentioned Branson? We went several years ago on an extended family trip because my in laws really wanted to go. There was a toy museum that was kinda cool but had an inexplicable area showing a film on repeat about some author Ronald Reagan really admired. Also weird Christian stuff would pop up randomly in an unprofessional way. IIRC, admission also got you into the BB Gun museum, which is about what you'd expect. Some of the guns had notches on them that the plaque speculated were for squirrels or rabbits the owner had sniped.
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Das Boo posted:Weird, I liked Mt. Rushmore. I didn't pay the monument a whole lotta mind, but the walking trail and forest around it are just lovely. The Black Hills are great.
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I went to the world痴 largest bong in Las Vegas.
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In college we took a student from Wales to the Rock and Roll McDonalds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T266cfW95m8
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Captain Hygiene posted:I've done a fair amount of storm chasing, which involves a lot of down time in the big, empty Plains states. You get plenty of chances to see all the Carhenge is truly spectacular, though, and well worth your time! Aside from the accurately situated ring of cars, there are hiking trails across the gently rolling prairie environment with many, many works of art--based mainly on automobiles, and other technology from the past! LOVE-- VITALIS
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Rides Naked posted:The roller coaster at Buffalo Bill's in Primm: Notable Restaurants: Denny's lol The World's Tallest Thermometer in Baker is another notable tourist trap on the way to Vegas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Tallest_Thermometer  I definitely feel like some of these places need this stuff, otherwise there'd be no reason to stop there. Just keep on driving to your actual destination. Further up the road in Barstow, there at least used to be a gimmick McDonald's built inside some old train cars at a renovated train station: https://www.orangesmile.com/extreme/en/unusual-fastfood/barstow-station-mcdonalds.htm https://www.mashed.com/807468/this-historic-mcdonalds-is-located-in-old-train-carriages/
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Yes, you liked the area, not the carving. If the carving wasn稚 there you would have enjoyed it just as much. Ah, but it was the carving that led me to the area so that I could appreciate it! HaHA! Speaking of the area, I took my siblings to one of those Mystery Spots where they build a funky house to mess with your balance. It was silly and fun. Like hyah:  I think the only tourist trap that really annoyed me was Disney Land.
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Das Boo posted:Ah, but it was the carving that led me to the area so that I could appreciate it! HaHA! They have one of those in SD too. Wtf, South Dakota got it all going on. I really enjoyed the badlands
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South Dakota legit kicks rear end. Cabins and caves and SO MANY ROCK SHOPS!
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mackensie posted:Can't believe no one posted Plymouth Rock. It's one of the worst tourist traps in the country. i was there a few weeks ago. i honestly love that stupid loving thing. its such weird bullshit story thats clearly bullshit and the historical stuff even says as much but its kinda an icon of its own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkhOEI4v_64&list=PLvb4WYGBoD86DlKbPDSKbD6IIFtaFi53b&index=34 also i got a christmas ornament of it.
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Wall Drug kicks rear end and I won't hear otherwise. Still kinda regret not buying a stuffed jackalope trophy head when I went there as a kid.Das Boo posted:South Dakota legit kicks rear end. Cabins and caves and SO MANY ROCK SHOPS! 
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the guggenheim with some picasso bullshit going on
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Mt.Rushmore has some really great fudge shops
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Would be better if they made all the presidents faces sing showtunes. Also tourist traps would be better if more of them had actual tourist traps, like bear traps but for tourist.
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Treecko posted:Mt.Rushmore has some really great fudge shops Perhaps, but you can also get quality fudge most anywhere else.
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dr_rat posted:Would be better if they made all the presidents faces sing showtunes. "LEAVE ME BEHIND! RIDE THE COASTER WITHOUT ME!"
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Extra Large Marge posted:Surprised at how many of these places that have been posted I've visited. Anyway, here are the ones that come to my mind: The mustard museum moved from Mt Horeb?! Also shame on you for not mentioning little Norway or Cave of the Mounds or goddamn House On The Rock
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Treecko posted:Mt.Rushmore has some really great fudge shops on the back of the mountain?
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Milo and POTUS posted:on the back of the mountain? Mt. Tushmore
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House on the Rock did get brought up a couple times, and it's one of the all time great oddball tourist traps. But I don't think anyone mentioned its weirdest architectural feature, the infinity room.  At some point, they just stuck a giant suspended hallway onto the side of the house that you can go walk out on to look at the forest below you. It's actually kinda fun, it's a neater view than you might expect from treetop level in a Wisconsin forest.
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Does the entirety of Las Vegas count? I also went to The Berlin Dungeon, which is basically a theme park haunted house and not a historical museum. Apparently they have these in a ton of European cities and they all are pretty much the same.
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Someone tried to suck me off at the Alamo!
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Flowers for QAnon posted:Someone tried to suck me off at the Alamo! Yeah, super good reason to remember the Alamo.
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Flowers for QAnon posted:Someone tried to suck me off at the Alamo! Now that's the kind of service you won't get at a Budget or an Avis
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Milo and POTUS posted:on the back of the mountain? Yeah, if you know where to ask. How bout that Devils Tower? I saw a hawk eat a snake there, was pretty rad. Other than that the hike sucked
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I went to a different tourist trap called the berlin dungeon
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Das Boo posted:South Dakota legit kicks rear end. Cabins and caves and SO MANY ROCK SHOPS! Growing up in the Black Hills of South Dakota spoiled me for a lot of family vacations because we'd go to touristy trap locations and I'd be like "this is all you got?" It's a little different now with a bunch of attractions closed and a few places have had big changes, like Bear Country getting new ownership that doesn't let people play with the bear cubs on the down low, but its still a great time. These days I'm more about the hiking/skiing out there, but we did take my cousins out there last year and did the touristy rounds and had fun.
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My family went on a road trip to Glacier National Park when I was like 6 or 7, and as such we saw all the upper midwest tourist trap stuff. Mt Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Wall Drug, the Mitchell Corn Palace, Devil's Tower, etc. My favorite was Reptile Gardens, though. My brother lost a game of Tic Tac Toe to a chicken and a giant tortoise almost stepped on my foot, it was awesome.
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The Reptile Gardens slap soo much rear end. I got to pet a baby croc there. That dang chicken always wins.
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I went along with my parents to Atlantic City a lot when I was little. At the Sands Casino, we had to cut through some dirty alleyway from the parking garage. As we were walking my mom suddenly grabbed my shoulder, and I looked down to see my sneaker hovering over a huge pile of poo poo. The casino wasn't much better. Another time we went to a reservation casino, and all I remember is their South Park pinball table had all the bad words censored. What's the point then? e: I mean like, "kill" and "bastards" which is half the reason why the table has a Kenny figure inside it in the first place. \/ Gator lunch if he loses. Waffle! fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Sep 27, 2023 |
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I like to believe it's the same chicken throughout the years, kicking someone's else's butt at tic-tac-toe. You can't win, here's some more quarters, prove you're smarter than the chicken. Realistically, that chicken was probably a gator lunch.
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Deki posted:Growing up in the Black Hills of South Dakota spoiled me for a lot of family vacations because we'd go to touristy trap locations and I'd be like "this is all you got?" It's a little different now with a bunch of attractions closed and a few places have had big changes, like Bear Country getting new ownership that doesn't let people play with the bear cubs on the down low, but its still a great time. We did Bear Country a few years back and they had the happiest wolves I've ever seen. They were all piled together in the sun and a black one and white one in the middle were play fighting and wallowing.  Didn't get to play with the cubs as you said, but I did get to see a keeper out feeding them. They kept climbing up her legs and she just kept calmly pulling them off and setting them down. They of course started right back up her legs. Treecko posted:The Reptile Gardens slap soo much rear end.  The SD tourist traps are just wonderful got some reason!
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Treecko posted:I like to believe it's the same chicken throughout the years, kicking someone's else's butt at tic-tac-toe. Waffle! posted:\/ Gator lunch if he loses. This has convinced me that Reptile Gardens is a front for some sort of chicken eugenics program to select for progressively smarter chickens Probably some DARPA deal where they're gonna be used for strategic defense. Just a bunch of hyper-chickens in little booths playing tic tac toe but it's an Ender's Game scenario
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Das Boo posted:Ah, but it was the carving that led me to the area so that I could appreciate it! HaHA! Specifically, the one in South Dakota not far from Mount Rushmore is the Cosmos Mystery Area. I went there too, it was cheesy but fun, if you like tourist traps. https://cosmosmysteryarea.com/ Also, how have people talked this much about South Dakota and not mentioned the Crazy Horse Memorial, a work-in-progress mountain carving of Native American Crazy Horse. It's also not far from Mount Rushmore, worth checking out if you're in the area.  The small statue in the foreground gives an idea of the intended design, the large mountain carving in the background has the face completed (which is larger than the heads of Mount Rushmore) and basic blocking of the shape. This photo looks like it's the view from the visitor's center. The carving was commissioned by a Lakota elder, and has been in progress since 1948, and is nowhere near done yet, lol. But it was mostly worked on by like, one dude and his immediate family for decades. It's non-profit and doesn't accept federal or state funding.
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No trip to Gatlinburg is complete without visiting the Pancake Pantry!  osha taffy pulling machines abound as well
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Maybe SamG Land counts. It's actually not far from Helen, GA. Long story short, SamG had a heart attack on the toilet and decided he'd rather spend the rest of his life making art. So he turned his girlfriend's yard into, well, this:     Its not designed to separate you from your money, no not a tourist trap perse, though SamG does accept donations. Still, roadside attraction. I parked at a gas station and walked into the woods behind it to get there. I walked around for an hour talking to SamG and looking at weird poo poo. 10/10 The man himself: 
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