What is the most overrated tourist attraction in the world?

By YPB Team

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.

Hollywood Walk of Fame — ranked #11
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Names in the pavement on a scruffy stretch of boulevard.
1000pts
Mona Lisa — ranked #22
Mona Lisa
A small painting behind glass at the end of a very long queue.
922pts
Las Vegas Strip — ranked #33
Las Vegas Strip
Four miles of resorts that people either love or leave early.
609pts
Oia sunset, Santorini — ranked #44
Oia sunset, Santorini
A famous view watched shoulder to shoulder with a thousand people.
473pts
Changing of the Guard — ranked #55
Changing of the Guard
A ceremony mostly experienced as the back of someone's head.
473pts
Manneken Pis — ranked #66
Manneken Pis
A two-foot bronze boy that most visitors walk straight past.
473pts
Times Square — ranked #77
Times Square
Advertising screens, costumed characters and very slow walking.
387pts
Great Wall at Badaling — ranked #88
Great Wall at Badaling
The most restored, most crowded stretch of a very long wall.
387pts
Spanish Steps — ranked #99
Spanish Steps
A staircase in Rome where sitting down is now fined.
387pts
Hollywood Sign — ranked #1010
Hollywood Sign
Nine letters best seen from a car park a long way below.
387pts
The Blarney Stone — ranked #1111
The Blarney Stone
A wall you hang upside down to kiss, after everyone else has.
387pts
Stonehenge — ranked #1212
Stonehenge
A stone circle viewed from a rope line beside a main road.
284pts
Juliet's Balcony — ranked #1313
Juliet's Balcony
A 20th-century balcony bolted onto a Verona house for a fictional character.
284pts
Leaning Tower of Pisa — ranked #1414
Leaning Tower of Pisa
A bell tower ringed by people pretending to hold it up.
284pts
Checkpoint Charlie — ranked #1515
Checkpoint Charlie
A replica guard hut with actors in costume charging for photos.
284pts
Fisherman's Wharf — ranked #1616
Fisherman's Wharf
San Francisco's souvenir shops and clam chowder in bread.
284pts
The Little Mermaid statue — ranked #1717
The Little Mermaid statue
Copenhagen's small bronze on a rock, permanently surrounded.
158pts
Niagara Falls — ranked #1818
Niagara Falls
A genuine natural wonder wrapped in wax museums and casinos.
158pts

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