To ask what famous landmark or must visit place/thing were you secretly underwhelmed by?

[Midge1978]

I went to stonehenge this year and whilst I was trying to get in touch with my inner druid, trying to project historical importance and mystery onto the place, I just couldn't escape the feeling that I was just looking at some very old stones and it was actually (whisper) a little bit boring!! Dh thought it was all marvellous though so I have never told him!!!

Big Ben. A school trip when I was 7.

It wasn't as tall as I imagined.

Edinburgh rude people and nothing special at all about the place.
Glasgow complete opposite.
The Spinx I walked past as it's so small.
Bali a dirty shit hole of a place.
The Crown Jewels...a rediculously long queue and the whole spectacle was pompous crap. Then the spiel about them belonging to us. I would like them back then please.

Revolving BBC sign, it's on a tiny street and v unimpressive.
Also the Sistine Chapel where it's forbidden to talk - presumably incase the sound damaged the paintings ffs

Giant's Causeway - a causeway for a giant not a giant causeway; I love it

New York

The Spinx I walked past as it's so small

Assuming "the Spinx" is meant to be "The Sphinx" a visit to Specs Savers might be a good idea given it measures 238 feet (73m) long from paw to tail, 66.3ft (20.21m) high from the base to the top of the head and 62.6 feet (19m) wide at its rear haunches.

Big Ben is not the tower, it's is the bell inside at the top! So I doubt many have actually seen Big Ben! Sorry, being facetious
Taj Mahal you haven't given it a proper chance unless you've stayed for a few hours to appreciate the way it changes colour in the sunlight at different parts of the day -it really is pretty amazing.
Disappointed with Mona Lisa, was almost a scrum in front of the little glass box it sits in and could hardly see it.
Love the National Gallery on a non school holiday day

Yy to Mona Lisa..Paris is great though.

Minack is wonderful.

Minack theatre is lovely.

It is. DD's first Shakespeare was The Tempest there - it rained a bit but bang on cue for the storm so that turned out to be a bonus. and Porthcurno beach is beautiful (I've never been to Bondi beach, just done an image search of the two ... no contest imo). Plus theres the telegraph museum which possibly DD liked even more than the theatre. (No, I'm not employed by the cornish tourist board, just some very fond memories sparked!)

The Gold Coast in Australia.

Tacky, over-rated, over-developed horror!

I'm only up to Longdistance's post and I'm going to have to disagree. Absolutely loved the Acropolis, went about 25 years ago mind.

Sydney - the bridge (tiny, and crap compared to say the Humber Bridge) and the Opera House - filthy!

The Mona Lisa was a strange one. So much hype. it's the painting everyone could name from school, but in reality it is so diminutive and the gallery so crowded, that it is a slight anti-climax.

LassWiTheDelicateAir

Should have gone to Specsavers . Googling the size of the sphinx...

How rude.

Dublin, Blackpool. Shit holes.

@StarUtopia haha r.e the Opera house, I used to live opposite it on the harbour, every day I'd stare at it thinking it looked like a 60s dirty council building that needed a good scrub 😂

Has anyone ever been to Dollyworld in the smokey mountains ?

The Sphinx is enormous- I know that without googling. How can a monument 3xs the size of an average house be "so small you walked past it"

The Prague astronomical clock. Yes, it is a nice looking clock but at the end of the day that's all it is, a clock!
People crowd round excitedly every hour waiting for it to go off, and to watch a few little men and skeletons to come out a little trapdoor. There is a more interesting one in my local shopping centre.

I thought it was just me who thought that! I dragged DH to Prague to see it and never liked to tell him I was disappointed!

Tintagel was disappointing for me...I expected to feel something magical while sea mists swirled around. Instead there were hoards of people all whinging they had to walk up a few steps.

But I really loved The Scream.

Just imagining thousands of years ago someone decided to build the Sphinx, after years of planning, excavating the rock, the deaths of who-knows how many slaves in building it, and the reaction "Its a bit small, isn't it?"

Talking is forbidden in the Sistine Chapel primarily because it's a consecrated place of worship, i.e. it's a holy place.

The Little Mermaid and the Mona Lisa were disappointing.
Venice however was even more amazing than I had imagined.

Disneyland in Florida....a place I yearned to go to since a child. I could barely sleep the night before we left. We visited with another family and had a 5 day ticket. It was just an oversized theme park, to me and as we approached the entrance, I felt no excitement like I thought I would. It was busy ( of course) and I just felt disappointed. I also spent most of the five days there holding the bags whilst the others went on the faster rides full of fast food burger bars. I couldn't wait for the days to end!