What tacky touristy shit have you done?

Your idea of tacky's probably not the same as mine, but almost all are touristy:

Eva Peron's Tomb and her former office in the Ministry of Labor, Recoleta, BA

Lenin's Tomb and the Lubyanka (KGB, now FSB headquarters), Red Square, Moscow (he was dusty or that was 70-year old dandruff)

Jim Morrison's grave, Pere Lachaise, Paris

Frank Sinatra's grave, Palm Springs Cemetery District (Sonny Bono and Jolie and Magda Gabor are resting comfortably there, too)

Edgar Allen Poe's grave, Baltimore

The Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ

The Book of Kells, Dublin

The Henry Ford and Greenfield Village, Dearborn, MI

Katherine the Great's bedroom, The Great Palace, St. Petersburg ("I would not know, I was not there" per the Intourist guide)

Chichen Itza, Valladolid, Yucatan

Statue of Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janiero

Disneyland/Disney World/Dollywood

The Big Merino, Goulburn, NSW and the Big Banana, Coffs Harbour, NSW

Monumento a los Zapatos Viejos (The Big Shoes), Cartagena

Sydney Harbour Bridge climb, Sydney, NSW

Plymouth Rock, Plymouth, MA (disappointing: cracked and small)

Palace of Westminster, aka Houses of Parliament, London (Stranger's, now Visitors, Gallery)

Versailles/la Tour Eiffel/Moulin Rouge, Paris

La Rambla/la Pedrera/la Sagrada Famila, Barcelona

Calgary Stampede, Calgary (as guests of two former Stampede Queens)

Niagara Falls, Ontario (staying in Marilyn Monroe's suite at the General Brock)

Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem

The Warren G. Harding death suite, Palace Hotel, San Francisco (actually, not tacky and a lovely view into Union Square)

Graceland, Memphis, TN

The Texas State Fair, Dallas

Space Needle, Seattle

Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco (walked across)

Oxford Street Wall, Darlinghurst, Sydney

Moonee Ponds, Melbourne (Dame Edna's - not DL Edna's - home town)

The Little Mermaid, Copenhagen

Las Vegas, NV - it's all tacky and very, very touristy

The Hoover Dam, Clark County, NV

The Anne Frank House, Amsterdam

Luau, Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Honolulu

Titanic Museum, Belfast

Leaning Tower of Pisa, Piazza del Duomo, ‎Pisa

Wall Drugs, Wall SD

"Innocent Victims," the Diana and Dodi statue at Harrods, London (since removed)

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