What is the most overrated tourist attraction in the world?
Some places are worth the queue. These are the ones people come back from quietly disappointed - the small painting behind glass, the roped-off stones, the street that is mostly other tourists. Rank the biggest gap between reputation and reality.
1Hollywood Walk of Fame
Names in the pavement on a scruffy stretch of boulevard.
1000pts
2Mona Lisa
A small painting behind glass at the end of a very long queue.
922pts
3Las Vegas Strip
Four miles of resorts that people either love or leave early.
609pts
4Oia sunset, Santorini
A famous view watched shoulder to shoulder with a thousand people.
473pts
5Changing of the Guard
A ceremony mostly experienced as the back of someone's head.
473pts
6Manneken Pis
A two-foot bronze boy that most visitors walk straight past.
473pts
7Times Square
Advertising screens, costumed characters and very slow walking.
387pts
8Great Wall at Badaling
The most restored, most crowded stretch of a very long wall.
387pts
9Spanish Steps
A staircase in Rome where sitting down is now fined.
387pts
10Hollywood Sign
Nine letters best seen from a car park a long way below.
387pts
11The Blarney Stone
A wall you hang upside down to kiss, after everyone else has.
387pts
12Stonehenge
A stone circle viewed from a rope line beside a main road.
284pts
13Juliet's Balcony
A 20th-century balcony bolted onto a Verona house for a fictional character.
284pts
14Leaning Tower of Pisa
A bell tower ringed by people pretending to hold it up.
284pts
15Checkpoint Charlie
A replica guard hut with actors in costume charging for photos.
284pts
16Fisherman's Wharf
San Francisco's souvenir shops and clam chowder in bread.
284pts
17The Little Mermaid statue
Copenhagen's small bronze on a rock, permanently surrounded.
158pts
18Niagara Falls
A genuine natural wonder wrapped in wax museums and casinos.
158pts
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