Next month, I’ll be posting a “The Best…” list related to the “wonders of the world” — both ancient and modern. As sort of a companion list, I thought it would be interesting to bring together some accessible resources highlighting what are considered the most popular tourist destinations.
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Here are my choices for The Best Sites Showing The Most Popular Tourist Destinations In The World:
The world’s greatest attractions is a slideshow from The Guardian.
1,000 Places To See Before You Die is the website for the famous book of the same name.
Top 10 most visited tourist attractions in the world shows their photos and provides information about each site.
The World’s Top Tourist Attractions is a similar feature.
America’s Top Tourist Attractions is a slideshow from Forbes.
Forbes has a similar slideshow that’s considerably longer.
Most Dangerous Tourist Attractions is a slideshow from AOL.
10 Most Scary and Weird Tourist Attractions in the World is from Listphobia.
The author of the travel book, 100 things to do before you die, recently died, and The Independent newspaper created a slideshow showing all the 100 things.
Here’s a video showing “Top 10 Most Popular Tourist Destinations.”:
The Smithsonian Life List: 43 Places to See Before You Die is pretty neat.
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