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A souvenir stamp can create a real passport problem
An attraction's novelty stamp may look like a perfect travel memory, but the U.S. State Department warns against unofficial stamps or markings in passports.…
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An Amsterdam Airbnb booking turned out to be a roadside container
In 2019, Ben Speller arrived expecting the room advertised online and found a shipping container with a mattress and portable toilet. The mismatch was not an…
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Why budget travelers still end up at tourist cafés
Navigation apps can funnel budget travelers toward the same popular cafés, where supposedly authentic food comes with tourist-trap prices.
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The fake monuments fool tourists into taking photos
Locals turn ordinary objects into mock landmarks—a traffic cone with a plaque becomes the “Historic Cone of Progress”—to see whether tourists mistake them for…
Discover moreStanding in front of a famous landmark with thousands of other tourists all holding selfie sticks feels like being at a concert for mediocrity.
Tourist hotspots are less about the landmarks and more about the sea of people crowding around them, phones lifted high like digital torches. Standing…
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