Rubbish tourist attractions: the ‘Narrowest Street In The World’ in Reutlingen, Germany

[editor]

This failed to impress - has anyone else been? And what other famous attractions have failed to impress you?

A disappointing trip to Spreuerhofstrasse, the ‘Narrowest Street In The World’ in Reutlingen, Bavaria, Germany

 

[8ball]

This failed to impress - has anyone else been? And what other famous attractions have failed to impress you?

A disappointing trip to Spreuerhofstrasse, the ‘Narrowest Street In The World’ in Reutlingen, Bavaria, Germany

Are you saying that didn't even give you a giggle?

 

[Pickman's model]

This failed to impress - has anyone else been? And what other famous attractions have failed to impress you?

A disappointing trip to Spreuerhofstrasse, the ‘Narrowest Street In The World’ in Reutlingen, Bavaria, Germany

why did you go to see something narrow in the middle of the night?

 

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Ours is better, and we're dignified enough to not even bother marketing it:

Parliament Street, Exeter - Wikipedia

 

[QueenOfGoths]

The Tupelo Meteorite

It's a big piece of rock. And isn't actually a meteorite.

Plus there was a trip hazard nearby which Mr. QofG's reported to Tupelo District Council or whatever the equivalent is!!

 

[JuanTwoThree]

When I was a child, Piccadilly Circus.

Not a circus
And Lyons Corner House, for similar reasons


placenames-that-disappoint

 

[Orang Utan]

I once went to what was billed from the roadside as 'the world's biggest underground military museum' (somewhere in North Wales on the way to Snowdonia), which turned out to be a couple of rusting tanks in a cave.

 

[Pickman's model]

I once went to what was billed from the roadside as 'the world's biggest underground military museum' (somewhere in North Wales on the way to Snowdonia), which turned out to be a couple of rusting tanks in a cave.

you've been had: The world’s largest underground military museum – Discover China

 

[editor]

Ours is better, and we're dignified enough to not even bother marketing it:

Parliament Street, Exeter - Wikipedia

This one is even better

Brydges Place, Covent Garden, London, the narrowest alleyway in London.

 

[editor]

The St Ives Museum is a thing of wonder too:

Exhibit, St. Ives Museum, Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, Cornwall, April 2004

 

[editor]

why did you go to see something narrow in the middle of the night?

Because that's when I was in town. I thought they might have been able to provide basic lighting for a WORLD RECORD HOLDER.

 

[rekil]

Offaly's Barack Obama Plaza.

 

[Orang Utan]

you've been had: The world’s largest underground military museum – Discover China

That was obvious the minute we walked in.

 

[Pickman's model]

Exhibit, St. Ives Museum, Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, Cornwall, April 2004

where i used to work there was something in one of the archive boxes, mr jones's pencil. so i went and looked at it one day, and it was a pencil with a bit of string and a tag. the tag said 'this pencil belonged to mr jones the supervisor and he used it every day of his working life from 1852 to 1899' or similar. only i didn't believe it because it was still six inches long.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I've always liked Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate as a street name, and that is has an address of 1 1/2.

Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate - Wikipedia

 

[Pickman's model]

Because that's when I was in town. I thought they might have been able to provide basic lighting for a WORLD RECORD HOLDER.

i have been in the world's darkest room and light somewhat ruins the experience

 

[klang]

This failed to impress - has anyone else been?

I've been and wasn't impressed but liked Reutlingen for its location - the gateway to the Swabian Alps.

btw- it's not in Bavaria but Baden Wuertemberg.

 

[2hats]

 

[editor]

I've been and wasn't impressed but liked Reutlingen for its location - the gateway to the Swabian Alps.

btw- it's not in Bavaria but Baden Wuertemberg.

You're right - one of the sites I looked at said Bavaria. Bah. Fixed.

 

[klang]

You're right - one of the sites I looked at said Bavaria. Bah. Fixed.

I've played very cool gigs in Reutlingen btw. Cool arty scene of v keen music appreciators there.

 

[editor]

I've played very cool gigs in Reutlingen btw. Cool arty scene of v keen music appreciators there.

We had a cracking gig there. It's a small town and we didn't think that many people would turn up but we had a very enthusiastic crowd!

 

[Steel Icarus]

Prague's National Museum had lots of inexpertly stuffed animals and drawer after drawer of trilobite fossils, and not much else.

 

[2hats]

Assorted contrived roadside attractions in the US (world's tallest thermometer, world's largest peach, world's largest sperm whale replica, world's largest frying pan, world's largest beetle, world's largest peanut, etc). See also Australia's big things.

 

[rekil]

Prague's National Museum had lots of inexpertly stuffed animals and drawer after drawer of trilobite fossils, and not much else.

A Century of Tramping

In English, the word tramp most commonly denotes a vagrant, a down-and-out or even something worse. However, in the Czech Republic and Slovakia it has acquired a different meaning.

 

[chilango]

I once went to what was billed from the roadside as 'the world's biggest underground military museum' (somewhere in North Wales on the way to Snowdonia), which turned out to be a couple of rusting tanks in a cave.

Grange Cavern, Holywell.

 

[Orang Utan]

Grange Cavern, Holywell.

that's it, yes!

 

[Jennastan]

Smallest house in Great Britain. firstly, I'm sceptical. Secondly, who cares? It's like an extension on that other house, so what?

 

[planetgeli]

The middle of the world - Ecuador.

It's rubbish. It has a monument opened by Bill Clinton. It's not even in the right place (800 ft off, and the Incas got the right place a few hundred years before without any fancy measuring tools).

Ecuador is proud of its Equator monument – even though it's in the wrong place



But I still went.

 

[tim]

Not only did Lenin's office in the Marx Memorial Library have a photocopier in it when I visited, but I have also just discovered that the space it occupies was only walled off years after Lenin left London

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

You can go and see the world’s biggest turban in Udaipur