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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Goats in Trees
Article by Sherry Ott, 20 January 2008
Do you believe that Goats in Morocco climb high into trees, foraging for food?
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Walking in a Corporate Wonderland
Article by Sloan Schang, 20 February 2008
Big wealthy corporations?
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Keep Manitou Weird
Article by Jessica Feis, 18 May 2008
An insider's look at Manitou Springs, Colorado, a quirky, small, mountain town located at the foot of Pikes Peak.
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Madman or Genius?
Article by Kate Blood, 24 June 2008
Vice and romance at Fresno's Forestiere Underground Gardens
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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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Talking Trash
Article by Sandra Scott, 30 June 2008
A museum where talking trash is fun and informative.
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Going Underground at the Cu Chi Tunnels
Article by pam mandel, 1 July 2008
Once place of terror for American soldiers and lives forced underground for the Vietnamese people, the Cu Chi Tunnels outside Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam have been converted into a place where history and tourism collide in a way that makes no sense.
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Surreal Trip to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Article by Mark Resnicoff, 1 July 2008
An exclusive and personal 2-day tour of areas directly affected by the world’s worst nuclear accident.
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Come gamble in Bokor! A charming hilltop retreat surrounded by landmines.
Article by Frans & Claire van der Lee, 6 July 2008
When most visitors to Cambodia think of ruins, visions of ancient Khmer temples rising out of the creeping jungle come to mind - an abandoned French colonial hill station, surrounded by unexploded ordnance, swathed in mist does not.
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Corregidor; echoes of War In the Pacific.
Article by Merlin Peck, 6 July 2008
The saga of America's defending, losing, then re-taking the island of Corregidor, a place where the lasting bond between Filipino freedom fighters and the GI was forged.
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