tourists & tourism

Liu Chuanyi, a Chinese citizen fell into an old well while hiking in the countryside, in rural South-East Asia. In spite of shouting for help, he wasn't rescued because the local villagers (who did not speak Chinese) thought his cries were coming from a ghost and were too afraid to approach the...

Time for such a thread! I'll start with this guy who is at least atoning for his actions. A Russian man is to be deported from Indonesia for stripping off his clothes atop a sacred mountain in Bali. A photo of the man posing with his pants around his ankles on Mount Agung went viral last...

How I wish I was in England with all you guys. Would love to visit Whitechapel and go on the Jack The Ripper Walk Tour. Oh, to be in England...

I'm like to announce my first Android App, a mapping programme that acts a guide to many of the thousands of haunted locations in the UK. My goal was for it to not only act as a gazetteer but also as a guide as you visit explore the UK, to tell you if any spectres are at hand. You can query...

These crop up in other threads from time to time, but I don't think we've got a dedicated one, so this is a thread for peculiar or just spectacularly disappointing tourist attractions. To kick off, I'm intrigued by Collectors World (sic), Apparently "A highly popular tourist attraction in...

How about we send them all there? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/showbiz/newsid_2014000/2014153.stm Pop star Lance Bass has come one step closer to becoming the next space tourist after being told that he had passed a health and fitness test. Bass, of the boy band 'N...

Myself and my other half are thinking of going on holiday around Scotland this year and we have been thinking about travelling around visiting sites of a Fortean nature. We are broadly interested in everythind supernatural/paranormal related as well as ancient sites, castles, etc What I want...