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.

1. 1
   Hollywood Walk of Fame

   Names in the pavement on a scruffy stretch of boulevard.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Mona Lisa

   A small painting behind glass at the end of a very long queue.
   922pts
3. 3
   Las Vegas Strip

   Four miles of resorts that people either love or leave early.
   609pts
4. 4
   Oia sunset, Santorini

   A famous view watched shoulder to shoulder with a thousand people.
   473pts
5. 5
   Changing of the Guard

   A ceremony mostly experienced as the back of someone's head.
   473pts
6. 6
   Manneken Pis

   A two-foot bronze boy that most visitors walk straight past.
   473pts
7. 7
   Times Square

   Advertising screens, costumed characters and very slow walking.
   387pts
8. 8
   Great Wall at Badaling

   The most restored, most crowded stretch of a very long wall.
   387pts
9. 9
   Spanish Steps

   A staircase in Rome where sitting down is now fined.
   387pts
10. 10
    Hollywood Sign

    Nine letters best seen from a car park a long way below.
    387pts
11. 11
    The Blarney Stone

    A wall you hang upside down to kiss, after everyone else has.
    387pts
12. 12
    Stonehenge

    A stone circle viewed from a rope line beside a main road.
    284pts
13. 13
    Juliet's Balcony

    A 20th-century balcony bolted onto a Verona house for a fictional character.
    284pts
14. 14
    Leaning Tower of Pisa

    A bell tower ringed by people pretending to hold it up.
    284pts
15. 15
    Checkpoint Charlie

    A replica guard hut with actors in costume charging for photos.
    284pts
16. 16
    Fisherman's Wharf

    San Francisco's souvenir shops and clam chowder in bread.
    284pts
17. 17
    The Little Mermaid statue

    Copenhagen's small bronze on a rock, permanently surrounded.
    0pts
18. 18
    Niagara Falls

    A genuine natural wonder wrapped in wax museums and casinos.
    0pts
19. 19
    Pyramids of Giza

    The last ancient wonder, reached through camel touts, with a Pizza Hut facing the Sphinx.

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