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You drive kilometers down an endless motorway when you exit the blue giant billboards, start advertising an exciting show just in advance. But these roadside attractions are not an innocent way to stretch your legs - they can also be a sneaky ploy to get you money on sticky memories that you do not need or on a "historic site "Who has been better days. Thus, whether you are on the road that stumbles through the country or you stop in a city, beware of these 30 common tourist traps that do not live very well on advertising threshing.

TheEmpire State Building Can be an emblematic piece of New York architecture, but it does not mean that the views of the city are preferred from the top. This is $ 42 of $ 42 to access the 86th floor and a total of $ 72 of $ 72 for the 102nd Superior Bridge. Save your money and head to230 fifth roof bar a few blocks for the same vision or hitting the1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge On the roof, which overlooks the East River, a global trade and the statue of freedom in the distance.

If you are a fan of Elvis Die-Hard, you can have a kick of original soundMansion in Memphis. For all others, the entrance to the domain costs a cool of $ 42.50 or the experience of Elvis experience will prepare you $ 63 and includes exhibitions featuring car collection, its wardrobe and records of gold. The entire complex suddenly looks from Disney, with a dinner and retro tourists from the 50s wearing giant iPad around their neck to watch the virtual tour. Instead, you may want to check theMemphis Rock N 'Soul Museum For a much more affordable ticket of $ 13.

Although this has made a cameo in almost all winter movies in New York, therink in the center of Rockefeller is a tourist hotspot. As the rest of Manhattan, it is super packaged and extremely expensive, with a session on the ice, plus the skate rental at $ 38 for adults.

Seattle is quite expensive - you do not need to pay $ 32.50 for aerial view of the city. Take this money in a roof bar, one where you can see theSpace needle In the background (it's a lot more impressive for the gram, anyway). One of our favorites isThe nest, which is perched at the top of Thompson Hotel with views of Elliott Bay and the Olympic Mountains.

Sure,Coca Cola The recipe could be incredibly secret, but you do not think they will give the details during a tour, is not it? As you approach the safe that would claim the recipe, the general admission for adults manages $ 17, making it an expensive family, stop taking a coke propaganda, watch a line of replica bottle and Taste a lot of sweet drinks. We say pocket the money, take a cold coca if you really want and put these dollars to better use at a localBrewery visit instead of.

Despite his confused name, there is not a lot of mystery here. To visit the Hokey spot, which said to cause inexplicable events like the adult lighthouse will have to pay $ 9 and that children are charged $ 7. Theattraction Also has a mini golf, a labyrinth and a zipline (at an extra cost, of course). And for more surprising stops, consult the33 Best road attractions in America.

Thisthe fall Someone has been part of 1921, but that does not necessarily mean it's good. You pay $ 5 per adult to view a coffin of bronze sealed in a concrete case surrounded by a dissuasive flight fence. Not much to see here, people.

Along the 95 motorway (known as the extraterrestrial road) outside Vegas, you will hit thatstrange travel center. The complex has extraterrestrial themed gas station, a souvenir shop (Alien Jerky, anyone?), Tattoo, and, Ahem, a brothel. There is also a fireworks warehouse next to the door, as if it were not enough for warning.

If the name is not enough for a deterrence, the stone falls, Arizona, will quickly light your wild wild wild rebuilds. For $ 10, you can watch a false thrust of 30 seconds of rifle to theOKAY. Corral, a delivery and a horse coral at the end of the 19th century. Even the Chamber of Commerce of Pierre Tombs debated whether it isa tourist trap or not.

This state park can be one of the only places whereTourists can dig for their own precious stonesbut in reality, it is actually a 37 acre dirt field where people are blinding the treasure since 1906. Although the chances of finding everything that is almost impossible, tourists have received a new hope When a teaching has found a three-carat diamond in 2019. Nevertheless, given the chances, it's not really worth five hours from the small rock or the admission fee of the $ 10 mine.

You will see this place to come: about 175 blank display panels announce theSouth of the border of Virginia to Georgia. The stop is native to a place to pick up beer, but since its opening in 1949 it is grown in 350 hectares of downhill motel rooms, a 200-foot-shaped observation tower, a campsite Camping Car, an amusement park called Pedroland (Yikes), and what has been charged as the largest reptile park of America.

Fisherman's dock is more about selling a version ofSan Francisco than being an authentic experience of the city. Expect many souvenir shops and surprise seafood restaurants no local would never go. It is a place that concerns the tourist-consumer compared to someone who really wants to take in much more interesting culture of the bay. (But go take a look at the lions of the sea of ​​the jetty 39.)

The Waikiki beach can look like a paradise at first sight, but it's really only a long section of expensive strings and Sunburnt bodies cooking on the sand. Avoid sugary tropical drinks andHawaiian shirts Going to a more remote island in the archipelago, such as Kauai, Molokai or Lanai.

SameBoston eater Called this a tourism trap: theFood yard in the Faneuil room is always packed and has a lot of mediocre food options (especially for the price). That being said, there are some precious stones in the dining room, like the pepperoni slice at Pizzeria Regina or the clam trolley in Boston Chowda Co.

Expect many restaurants and theme souvenir shops globally toEPCOT, which also has to offer in the way of rides for Disneygoers. A one-day ticket and a park to go to Epcot costs $ 109 astronomical per person. This is not worth it for a plate of American versions (reads: fries) of international food. However, it is the only park of the cluttered and long-board complex that sells Booze, so we will call a small silver lining. And for more offers from Disney, discoverWhat is the cheaper world, Disneyland or Disney?

You will see display panels from Miles Huming Up "The Thing", a remote gas station, a souvenir shop and a dairy queen. The main attraction is the12,000 square feet museum, which displays a rather random object chain and taxidermia that are woven in a narrative of conspiracies involving extraterrestrials and dinosaurs. To see it for yourself, be prepared to illuminate $ 5 per person or $ 10 for the whole family.

A 20-minute drive from Fairbanks, the city of North Pole keeps the spirit ofXmasliving. The avenues have names like Santa Claus Lane, Blitzen, and the holiday road, and floor lamps recall candy canes. Although theSanta Claus House is billed like the official house of Saint Nick is actually more than one Christmas theme souvenir shop where you can buy a customizable letter from Santa Claus for $ 15 or a false action of North Pole Terrain for $ 10 .

The only time coming here is during theBeale Street Music Festival Each can, which attracts names like Leon Bridges, Lil Wayne, the Avett brothers and lumineers. Otherwise, it is a tourist street of the city with neonous lines and third-party tourists stumbled by diving bars, beers too expensive by hand.

Four o'clock outside the city of Kansas you will find the most random view:A gigantic ball of string. No one necessarily asked for a string bullet (and the title issurprisingly challenged), but people always gather every August to add more layers.

If you have never been toNew York Cityyou can be attracted by the glittering lights ofTimes Square. But the region is often avoided by the inhabitants because its cigarette sidewalks are congested with selfie tourists and costumed characters that will scrape you in images (for a price). You will also want to look at people who distribute flyers or "discounted tickets" for comedy clubs, Broadway shows and other entertainment. Tip: It's not really a business.

You get what is announced here:Plymouth Rock Is literally a small rock, stamped with the year the pilgrims were walking well, the aforementioned rock (1620, to be precise). It is in a fenced sand section, so that the op photo is not great either. You will also want to avoid the line of shops selling new sweatshirts and pilgrims.

This happens to be the only onemaize palace left around the world. There was much more so whenMidwest The cities used to build their own corn palaces to show how much they had to grow this important culture. While construction is really impressive,with a new wall every yearThis photo-op-gift shop in the city center of Mitchell is a place to take a picture, then go back to the highway. Unless you make a stopover at theBible Park In front of the street, that is to say. Note: The palace is free to enter, but the bracelets for carnival rides are $ 24.

Not even technically a real desert, this big-dream point is actually just a sandy beach in a state of forest-ycaused by a guy who did not know how to rotate his crops properly. In time, his arable land has eroded, he had to give up the farm and another guy bought the property in 1919 for $ 1 an acre and opened it as a tourist attraction six years later. Today theDesert of Maine Charge of the $ 10 admission fee, which includes a 35-minute guided tour.

This plate Recessed in the ground allows a great Instagram, since you can enter Twister mode and put a member in each state, but there is a good chance that some others have the same idea. It's a "to tell you that you made it" a kind of thing but along road Far from anywhere to justify it as a photo of the average below average. To access the site, you will need a range of more than $ 5 to $ 10 and avoid being sucked by sellers selling too expensive trinkets.

TheFrench Quarter is undeniably beautiful, why so many people flock to the New Orleans region. However, the main road, Bourbon Street, falls into the territory of traps thanks to its average catering chains, to its bars too expensive and its crowds into soaking of too many hurricanes Boozy. If it's not your scene, head at the St. Claude Avenue or Frenchmen Street.

If you want to burn a hole in your back pocket, well, welcome to Vegas, baby. Casinos are created on purpose to encouragespend moneyAnd the band was built to house the biggest and the best gaming rooms. In fact, the average person spends $ 200 to $ 250 a day in Las Vegas. Yes, the shows are hypnothetic, there is glamor (if you are looking for), and that the lights distract, but you know you are there to drop money.

Unless it's really a logical option for you to obtain purchases made, it is not necessary to make a pilgrimage of consumption to this sprawling shopping center.Mall of America attracts 40 million annual visitors - one in four are tourists who come for more than 520 stores and theNickelodeon Universe Amusement Park (Bracelet of $ 38).

There are many neglected walks in the United States, but the most notorious is the Atlantic city. ARipley's believes it or not ($ 17 adult admission) is just on the walk and has long been a nearby tourist traps signal, souvenir shops with beach cafes with insane menus.

Mural is known to be the "free ice water home", which was probably great in the days preceding the isolated water bottles, but this Cowboy theme shopping complex is a tourist trap of stuff. The 76,000 square feet warehouse includes a pharmacy and labyrinthin gift shop selling a bottle of $ 10 of black Hills and a $ 30 magnetic card.

On aInvestigation of Stasmer classifying the worst tourist traps of the worldThe Hollywood Walk of the Fame landed at a well deserved place at the bottom. Expect to be surrounded by Buskers when looking for your favorite ceeb star and shake up with other tourists, with a photo of a dirty sidewalk to show it.