Everywhere: Themes: 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".

Cell Block - Eastern State Penitentiary

Photo by Lisa Schwendemann, 11 November 2007

This cell block is not yet open to the public.
Goats in Trees!

Photo by Sherry Ott, 20 January 2008

Look closely and you will see 3 of them.
Peeking Over The Edge

Photo by Joshua Blankman, 28 March 2008

People exploring the 190 foot outcrop, King and Queen Seat, in Rocks State Park in Maryland, USA.
Old Rhodes

Photo by Greg Adams, 25 June 2008

Old Rhodes (Rodos) contains a fun shopping district and a network of ancient alleyways where the residents still live.
To Infinity

Photo by Ashley Smith, 25 June 2008

(March 20, 2008--Madison, WI) TO INFINITY -- The House on the Rock, an architectural marvel perched atop Deer Shelter Rock in Madison, WI, was built by Alex Jordan in the early 1940's.
transport by bike (1)

Photo by Gijs Bekenkamp, 30 June 2008

Although scooters are getting more and more popular, a simple bike is still seen as the ideal way to transport your goods from A to B.
Talking Trash

Photo by Sandra Scott, 30 June 2008

Looking at a typical landfill
At the Cu Chi Tunnels

Photo by pam mandel, 1 July 2008

One of the staff at Cu Chi Tunnels shows how the Vietnamese fighters disappeared into the ground through tiny, camouflaged tunnels.
Myrtles Plantation

Photo by Rich Newman, 2 July 2008

One of the many reportedly haunted sites located along Highway 61--though this is in Louisiana.
D-O Double G

Photo by Julio Perez, 2 July 2008

Harajuku, Japan