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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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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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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Getting water
Photo by John Towler, 2 August 2008
This village has one well to supply the entire village.
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No Show?
Photo by Sam Bowman, 1 August 2008
The entire Renaissance Society Gallery during one of there more experimental shows.
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Kyrgyz Goat Polo
Photo by Elena Skochilo, 1 August 2008
Ulak Tartysh (Wrestling on horseback for a goat’s carcass) is the Kyrgyz national game.
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Muslim Powwow in Xining, China
Photo by Thomas Talhelm, 30 July 2008
Local men powwow in the shade of a tree in the courtyard of a local Mosque.
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Pink Electricity
Photo by Angus Maclaurin, 28 July 2008
If only the electric company would follow this example...A meter in Balmy Alley, part of the Mission murals.
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segway tour
Photo by craig fraizer, 28 July 2008
segway tour, san francisco
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