Theme: Weird Tours
While most tourists trudge to the usual museums, churches, and historic sites, other travelers seek out tours that are unusual or out-of-the-way. Obsessive collections of junk? Factory tours? Tours of underground tunnels? Abandoned ruins? Crime scenes? Weird tours provide a unique perspective on oddball places that don’t usually qualify as "tourist attractions".
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The Mystery Spot
Photo by Heather Short, 7 October 2008
When you first arrive at The Mystery Spot you wonder what all the excitement is about.
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Signs From Our Past - Vintage Vegas Icons In "Hibernation"
Article by Marilyn Davenport, 25 June 2008
Vintage Las Vegas neon signs in "hybernation", awaiting hopes of restoration and a bright new future.
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Got Milk?
Photo by Laura Gatz, 5 October 2008
Milking cows at Clareview B&B, outside of Kinvara, County Galway, Ireland.
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Viva The King
Photo by April Donaldson, 22 September 2008
In the little town of Holly Springs, MS there lives a man who is such a huge Elvis fan, he turned his big old house into shrine called Graceland Too.
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Overlooking Her City
Photo by Kelly Schulze, 21 September 2008
The beautiful city of Heidelberg in Baden-Wuerttemburg, Germany was bustling with tourists in August when I visited.
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Reykjavik House
Photo by Dawn McCaslin, 21 September 2008
This is one of my favorite pictures from our first day in Iceland.
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Belfast Black Taxi Tours
Article by Jarrett Brown, 11 August 2008
The Belfast Black Taxi Tours in Northern Ireland showed the amazing political murals of the Troubles between the Protestants and Catholics including the "Peace Wall" separating the two groups.
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Belfast Black Taxi Tours
Photo by Jarrett Brown, 11 August 2008
The Protestant side in Belfast used Andrew Jackson for a political mural to showcase the Belfast and Northern Ireland heritage
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Underwater Delights
Photo by Kelly Saunders, 3 August 2008
You never know what is hiding in the crevice of the next coral formation
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Toilet Seat Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Article by David Fugazzotto, 3 August 2008
Dave and Melody discover a hidden cultural landmark in their new hometown.
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