What's the tourist attraction you've been to that had the highest ratio of hype to enjoyability? And even better if it's a pain in the ass or takes a long time to get to. The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen comes to mind, but that's not especially difficult to get to if you're already doing touristy stuff in Copenhagen. I wonder if the Blarney Stone fits these criteria. Give me your best.

South of the Border of of I95

Fontana Trevi.

Mount Rushmore ainec

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Nailed it. Probably the freakiest place I've ever gone to.

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For me (this is a spring break destination): Daytona Beach. The racetrack is by far worth it to go to, but to spring break in Daytona is...meh. Very run down town.

Depends how much you like trashy strippers.

Atlantic City

First places that came to mind for me were both scuba diving locations: The Great Barrier Reef and the Blue Hole in Belize.

The White House.

After having your member of Congress arrange a tour for you, it's through about five rooms to see some old furniture and paintings, then GTFO. Probably 45 minutes from start of security to end.

Machu Picchu. the trek to get there was awesome. Surrounding hikes were cool. Waking up at 4am to wait in a giant line to get inside and wait in more lines and not be able to walk because there's organized lines of people taking the same damn picture everywhere is just overly touristy annoying. History kinda cool. Place itself kinda cool. Maybe I've been to too many mayan and aztec ruins over the years. But Machu Picchu itself kinda sucked.

Since I know I just trashed such a big bucket list location - On a positive note - not to be missed places in latin america: teotihuacan and other mayan ruins in mexico, Roatan and Utila scuba dive islands off coast of Honduras, Tikal/Semuc Champey/volcanos around Antigua in Guatemala, Colombia in general is everyone's favorite for the overall vibe, Galapagos islands, Iguazu falls. Costa rica was full of awesome beaches/scenery/rainforest as well, but has more of the overly tourist vibe too it. Still not a mistake to check it out once. Probably lots more islands in the carribean I am missing. Rio as a city is so damn beautiful in so many ways.

Two polar opposites in one: The Louvre. It's so massive that, imo, if you love art it's damn near impossible to see it all in one day. However, The Mona Lisa is the single most underwhelming piece of art I've ever seen not even mentioning the tourists just bombarding the area with photos. I feel like it's a giant troll intended to fool tourists for generations.

I never understand what the point is of taking a photo of something like the Mona Lisa.

So they can post it straight on their FaceBook just to let everyone that they are awesome.

It's ridiculous. There was a lady yesterday at the Uffizi literally taking a photo of every painting she walked by.

Surprised you're allowed to take photos. Many art museuns don't permit photography.

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It does. As does Plymouth Rock in the U.S.

I'm not sure if an entire island can be considered a tourist attraction, but if so, I would include the island of Tahiti.

But not all of French Polynesia is underwhelming by any means. The islands of Bora Bora and Moorea are gorgeous. But speaking of Bora Bora, the "world famous" Bloody Mary's Restaurant & Bar on Bora Bora is both overrated and underwhelming.

Another underwhelming tourist attraction to me was Hot Water Beach on the Coromandel peninsula in New Zealand. It was a pain in the ass to reach, and then once there, there's really nothing to do but wait for low tide, dig a hole in the sand, and sit down.

In my experience, most just prohibit flash photography, not all photography.

Taking a photo of the scrum of tourists trying to elbow their way in to take a photo of the Mona Lisa can be a great picture though. A strange array of elements captured in one.

In before Stonehenge

I would have to say Buddhist temples/statues in Asia, for example those in Thailand and Myanmar. The first time it is kind of cool, and then after that you're like "well, it's another statue of Buddha, awesome..."

Agreed about the temples. Pick a couple, then there's plenty of other things to do in Thailand

This thing:

And the countless people taking pictures pretending to push it up

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I mostly agree. But Bagan...

Singapore, specifically Sentosa.