It is great reading this post! I'd like to add an awesome sight: My first look at the fjords in Norway. Blew me away. We spent the night in the port Balastrand in the Sognefjorden at Hotel Kvickne. If anyone has been to the fjords or to this hotel, you'll know how I felt. Another awesome sight is seeing daylight at 11 p.m., 12 p.m., etc, in Scandinavia. Wow. I've been a lot of places, but nothing like this.

Old Al: I think the all time "waste of time" award goes to Nashville, TN. I'm not a country music fan . . . so my opinion may be somewhat biased. I can't imagine, though, why anyone would be interested in seeing such things as the cast removed from Barbara Mandrell's leg! How about a structure they have named "the Parthenon of the South"?! Sorry if I've offended anyone from Nashville.

Although this started out as a European idea, I would like to nominate my all time favorite
time waster and the nadir of modern day tacky: Dollywood!!

And Stonehenge to me was fascinating, but that was BF and BC (before fence and charge). Anybody like to hypothesize how they got those things in place.
I buy the idea they were slid along on a moving path
of logs. But once at the site, how were they
hoisted erect and placed into the ground?
Sort of like how did the Egyptians raise those huge
obelisks into place without modern day lifting equipment??
Those who disparage should analyze.

Gibraltar. The sight of it from the road is spectacular. That's about it. Still don't know why we bothered going in...

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Never NEVER do the tour of the Tower Bridge unless you want to waste a lot of money and a lot of your precious time (once you start you can't get out as you are stuck behind the group in front of you).

I'd recommend a pass on the catacombs in Rome!!

Thanks for letting the newcomers take a shot at this; pass on tacky, tiny San Marino (within Italy).

This gives me another chance to say--DON'T WASTE TIME AND MONEY AT THE LONDON DUNGEON!! My husband had the erroneous idea that this was some sort of historical site or museum. The line was very long and once we got in it was silly and tacky--our teenagers did not like it either. (We do laugh now about how corny and hokie it was.) I am surprised that guidebooks mention it. Haunted Houses in the US are scarier, if that's what you are going for. If you are interested in dungeons or torture, I understand that there are plenty of REAL dungeons to visit.

interesting question, intersting answers, thread worth reviving

Obviously I liked some places more or less than others, but I honestly can't think of any place I went in Europe that ws a total waste of time.

<BR><BR>visiting a pub in England--not that interesting and food barely edible<BR><BR>papal palace in Avignon<BR><BR>most of Madrid

Taking a bus to go to the beach near Athens to cool off on a hot hot July day. ACK!