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 Intel Museum
Photo by Heather Short, 14 November 2008
This is one of the must see icons on the self-proclaimed geek's vacation itinerary of Silicon Valley.
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Red trees at this facade
Photo by Roberto Abramson, 23 October 2008
They say in Patagonia that this bungallow has inspired Walt Disney to create the Bambi's house.
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The Protective Batmen On Hollywood Boulevard
Photo by Ron Brown, 19 October 2008
A family poses with Batman characters on Hollywood Boulevard.
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Upwardly Mobile
Article by Colin Fernandes, 19 October 2008
What $1.50 and an open mind could buy you in San Francisco this weekend
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Post Gustav Southeastern Louisiana
Photo by Brian Hassell, 16 October 2008
A series of twelve or so downed power poles along LA44 near the LA3214 intersection in Convent, Louisiana.
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Ecclesiastes 12
Photo by Christopher Helmkamp, 16 October 2008
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity at the quirky Gilgal Gardens in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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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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