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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: Al Kaufman LOCATION: Quincy Market, Boston
Some of our Boston readers were horrified when they saw this tourist aggressively pick the nose of bronzed Celtics legend Red Auerbach.
So here’s Celtics fanatic Al Kaufman to balance out the negative karma.
“Just because I’m a heterosexual man doesn’t mean that I can’t show love for the Celtic [...]
SUBMITTED BY: Tacky Tourist Photos LOCATION: Plymouth, Mass. (2009)
This is the Tacky Tourist Photo that got away.
Moments earlier, a hoodie-wearing college kid and his girlfriend posed for each other while pretending to try to choke themselves (hands around their throats) with Plymouth Rock as a backdrop.
The camera angle was high, [...]
SUBMITTED BY: Al Kaufman LOCATION: Boston, Massachusetts
Ted Danson and Shelly Long could probably walk the streets of Boston unrecognized these days, but the city’s tourist district is still milking the dividends from “Cheers.”
I mean, hey, who wouldn’t want to share a beer with a cardboard cutout of George Wendt?
“I always wanted to have a [...]
When the Chinese government politely asks a t-shirt designer to stop selling political parody, there’s really only one underlying question to take into consideration:
“Hmmmm… Would I rather have a few hundred dollars or have tanks run over me and my souvenir shop?“
These Obama-Mao shirts were selling as fun kitsch, like the cute Maoist terrorist purse [...]
SUBMITTED BY: Emily Berezin LOCATION: Baños, Ecuador (2007)
When the Ecuadorian Special Forces are not sneaking across the Peruvian border or doing military drills with turtles in the Galapagos Islands, they like to play dress up.
Specifically, they like to dress up young female American tourists with hopes of scoring a phone number or email [...]
SUBMITTED BY: Kris Lucius LOCATION: Pisa, Italy (2003)
It’s not as edgy as the Leaning Miniskirt of Pisa, but you have to give Kris credit for wanting to fill his vacation photo album with something different than the “Holding Up Pisa” cliche.
Not that there’s anything wrong with the people who do enjoy Holding Up Pisa.
We just [...]
Swine Flu is absolutely hilarious until you start choking on your own cough reflex and feel your head incinerate like a furnace.
In the glamorous city of Lviv, Ukraine, a photog from the French AFP news service just captured this authentic Ukrainian woman afraid to breath the fresh Ukrainian air.
Equally afraid is this bronze statue of [...]
SUBMITTED BY: Leanna Battista LOCATION: Hampton Beach, New Hampshire (2009)
No matter what your age or size, it’s kinda humiliating to be crushed by a monster wearing purple nail polish.
(Leanna Battista, a sweet mother of two, loves to vacation on the New Hampshire seashore).
SUBMITTED BY: Mike Faucher LOCATION: Boston, Massachusetts (2003)
And you thought the frozen Ted Williams got abused?
The bronzed Red Auerbach, the basketball mastermind who coached the Boston Celtics dynasty in the 1960s and puffed cigar smoke in opponents’ faces, can’t get any respect either.
Says Tacky Tourist Photos model Mike Faucher: “Who says you can [...]
