Seattle boasts a highly celebrated tourist attraction known as the Market Theater Gum Wall, which is literally just an alleyway heavily caked in thousands of pieces of chewed, festering bubblegum.

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Seattle boasts a highly celebrated tourist attraction known as the Market Theater Gum Wall, which is literally just an alleyway heavily caked in thousands of pieces of chewed, festering bubblegum. What started in the 1990s as a quirky habit by theatergoers waiting in line has mutated into a massive, sticky biohazard stretching over fifty feet along a historic brick building. The city actually spent days steam-cleaning it in 2015 to prevent the sugar from destroying the masonry, but tourists immediately started re-sticking their gross oral refuse the very next day. It is profoundly disgusting that millions of people travel across the globe just to willingly contribute to a collective monument of dried saliva and minty bacteria