Tacky Tourist Photos

SUBMITTED BY: Barrie Mirman   LOCATION: Moscow State University, Russia Thumbs up for Russian socialism!  Woo Hoo! This is perhaps the most enthusiastic tourist response to Russian novelist Nikolai Chernyshevsky, whose call-to-arms book “What is to Be Done?” wound up on the coffee tables of a lot of Soviet revolutionaries. (Barrie Mirman is a globetrotting photographer [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Andy Carvin      LOCATION: Hungary (2005) The Neverland Ranch gets all the glory, but there’s another overlooked place for Michael Jackson fans to leave flowers and teddy bears — the Szabo Marzipan Museum in Szentendre, Hungary. Hungary? Well, you can’t eat this candy Michael Jackson. It’s stale.  And, as Andy Carvin reports, [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Liz     LOCATION: Italy (2009) Would be great to set up a time-lapse video camera in front of the Leaning Tower of Pisa for a year to document how many millions of photo albums contain this hokey photo gag. Ironically, Liz and her husband Mike were unfamiliar with local tacky customs in Pisa and [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Tacky Tourist Photos LOCATION: County fairs across North America (2009) Not sure if this amusement park gem comes with the option to float face down in ice water next to a Leonardo DiCaprio dummy, but according to RideAccidents.com, it has a haunted legacy. There is no indication that anyone has died from heavy [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Brad Jacques    LOCATION: Anaheim, California (2009) Just how old do you have to be these days to get hired as a Disney princess? Is there at least a rule that you have to have stopped playing with Barbies? To celebrate his 40th birthday, independent filmmaker Brad Jacques posed for pictures with Princess [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Ellie Mirman      PLACE: Boston (2007) There’s no greater guy magnet than a lobster skullcap that makes you look bald. (Despite being surrounded by lobster roll stands, Ellie Mirman has never tried the stuff.)

SUBMITTED BY: Darren Garnick               LOCATION: Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada (1995) Imagine veering off the road in the fog and having your face implanted in a tree near the Ha Ha Cemetery. Plots have to be pretty cheap in New Brunswick. But you’d spend eternity wallowing in the mockery of passing motorists. (Darren Garnick was [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Mark Sawtelle LOCATION: Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Poland (2007) OK, so you’re going to a concentration camp tomorrow and you have a fashion dilemma. What does one wear to a Nazi deathcamp? You go with the tight miniskirt and high heels. Auschwitz is where all the cute guys hang out. These tourists are at [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Darren Garnick    LOCATION: Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Poland (1998) What’s the best way for a hipster backpacker to pose by the electrified deathcamp fence? Should he try to look mournful or should he go with a more casual crouch? (Are these tourists being disrespectful or just totally clueless? Learn more about the Great Auschwitz [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Darren Garnick   LOCATION: Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Poland (1998) Nothing spices up a family vacation album more than Daddy posing with cannisters of Nazi poison gas. (Are these tourists being disrespectful or just totally clueless? Learn more about the Great Auschwitz Photo-Op.)

SUBMITTED BY: Eugene Mirman        LOCATION: Beersheva, Israel (2007) The curators of the Israeli Air Force Museum were probably hoping visitors would be awestruck by F-16 fighter jets and want to watch the Hebrew DVD of “Top Gun.” Or perhaps visitors would want the inside scoop about the Raid on Entebbe, a daring [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Ilya Mirman     LOCATION: St. Petersburg, Russia (2006) This poor muzzled bear cub sits in the sewer in front of the Winter Palace – residence of the Russian tsars, home of the world-famous Hermitage museum, and used as Russian military headquarters during the Nazi siege of World War II. Yes, there are unfortunately malnourished [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Sean Altman          LOCATION: Savonlinna, Finland (2009) Branding is everything in the business world, and the name of this supermarket was an instant turn-off for musician Sean Altman and his adorable daughter Ruby. “I uncovered no white supremacist groceries in there,” he says. “Although they did have a sale on white sheets with pre-cut [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Tacky Tourist Photos        LOCATION: Kissimmee, Florida For a mere 25 cents, you can get strapped into a pretend electric chair and “experience” what it’s like to get a small current zapped through your body. This “Hot Seat” amusement ride was inside an arcade at Olde Town, kind of a cheap [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Ilya Mirman        LOCATION: New York City (2008) The surefire way to know who the classy guys are? They’re the ones with the courtesy NOT to snap Jessica Simpson’s wax bra strap. (Ilya also loves to shoot rock concerts, and was recently a guest guitar player for Mr. Brownstone, the infamous Guns ‘N Roses [...]