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TTP celebrates the goofy pictures we pose for when we let our guard down as tourists – because photos of sunsets and statues can get pretty damn boring.
We love to connect with fellow travelers who don't take themselves too seriously -- and especially seek contributions from childhood vacation albums!
SUBMITTED BY: Darren Garnick LOCATION: O’Leary, Prince Edward Island (2009)
Home of Canada’s largest artificial potato, the PEI Potato Museum respectfully honors potato pin-up models, potato guns and even Mr. Potato Head. But perhaps its most meaningful contribution to Canadian culture is its mournful documentation of diseases and pests that are deadly to the [...]
SUBMITTED BY: Brad from The Terrible Catsafterme
LOCATION: Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum, Las Vegas (2009)
Only one in five billion of us are fortunate enough to share our blessings as a Playboy centerfold. But the fantasy stays alive.
A couple more glasses of wine, and Hugh Hefner might not be able to resist Brad’s sexy Shazam-Bunny Ears ensemble!
(Brad’s [...]
SUBMITTED BY: Michael Mirman LOCATION: Berlin, Germany
Aren’t we all big schmucks for buying into the precious jewels premise in the first place?
(Michael Mirman is a happily married software engineer with no regrets over any of his jewelry purchases).
SUBMITTED BY: Paul Lehman PICTURED: John Oakes, Jr.
LOCATION: Jell-O Museum, LeRoy, NY
According to Salon Magazine, Jell-O is now the official feel-good food for this horrific economy.
What better way to boost America’s spirits than by updating the classic Jell-O Girl, too?
(John Oakes and Paul Lehman explore America’s backroads with the Nash Car Club of America.)
SUBMITTED BY: Pete Kilroy LOCATION: North London, England
And people make fun of Trekkies?
You won’t find a more obsessed group than Beatles fans, who 40 years after the release of their last album, Abbey Road, still flock to the site of the original album cover.
Naturally, telling them it’s just a frickin’ crosswalk (or “Zebra [...]
SUBMITTED BY: Brad from The Terrible Catsafterme blog LOCATION: Pisa, Italy (2009)
It takes a visionary to visit a tourist trap where everyone takes the same cookie-cutter photo and walk away with a shot that’s fresh and provocative.
It takes a sexist visionary, but who are we to point fingers after the Jessica Simpson “waxual harassment” [...]
SUBMITTED BY: Pam O’Meara LOCATION: York Beach, Maine (2009)
Somebody call Ralph Nader.
This is one of the most insidious examples of product placement imaginable. Mere steps away from the frozen banana bicycle cart at York’s Wild Kingdom Zoo is an invitation for children to fantasize about being smothered in chocolate and rainbow [...]
SUBMITTED BY: Dave Pryke LOCATION: East Berlin, Germany (2009)
When President Ronald Reagan dreamed of his Star Wars defense plan, this is not exactly what he had in mind.
Filmmaker Dave Pryke encountered a lone Stormtrooper from Darth Vader’s legendary 501st Legion guarding the Brandenburg Gate, which stands just outside the site of the demolished [...]
SUBMITTED BY: Paul Garnick LOCATION: Mendon, Massachusetts (2009)
Massachusetts is a place where animals at state-funded zoos were recently threatened to be put on Death Row because of budget cuts.
It is also a place where gorillas throw their dung at elected officials.
With those two irrelevant Bay State zoo facts out of the way, let [...]
SUBMITTED BY: Diane Garnick LOCATION: Louisville, Kentucky (2009)
We’ve never read “The Art of Hitting .400″ by Ted Williams, but we assume that wearing high heels to the plate must screw up your equilibrium.
(Diane Garnick is a Red Sox-worshiping Wall Street guru and founder of Ladies in Red, a charity that requires donors to [...]
SUBMITTED BY: Darren Garnick LOCATION: Caesar’s Palace Hotel, Las Vegas (1995)
Never leave your wife alone with two scantily-clad European guys!
Notice the provocative knee bend.
(Darren Garnick is a co-founder and curator for Tacky Tourist Photos.com)
SUBMITTED BY: David Douglas Stuart, a.k.a. “Big Kamo” LOCATION: Nagoya, Japan (2003)
Unless you’re singing the national anthem or are a major advertiser, Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium would never let you on the field for a fantasy jog around the bases. Not so at the sacred sumo rings at the Nagoya Grand Sumo [...]
By a unanimous 3-0 vote, the Executive Board of Directors of Tacky Tourist Photos unconditionally condemns the Russian tourist who threw her coffee mug at the Mona Lisa painting at the Louvre.
The London Telegraph recreates the scene here:
“Screams erupted from the 40-odd tourists jostling for position around Leonardo da Vinci’s enigmatic painted lady when the [...]
By a unanimous 3-0 vote, the Executive Board of Directors of Tacky Tourist Photos unconditionally condemns the 60-year-old creep convicted this afternoon of groping Minnie Mouse at Disney World.
We also condemn the Orange County District Court for its light sentencing (50 hours of community service and $1,000 in court costs), believing their weak response only [...]
SUBMITTED BY: Kristine Carlson LOCATION: Savannah, Georgia (1997)
When Kristine Carlson and her husband-to-be Phil were looking for a romantic honeymoon destination, they skipped over the Vegas chapel and Niagara Falls heart-shaped hot tubs and went straight for the National Girl Scout Museum.
Kris is a s’more-loving Brownie leader who just couldn’t resist posing [...]
