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!!!

Hoover dam for me too. Just felt like a big reservoir.

1. Mona Lisa
2. Bruxelles Statue of little boy having a wee
3. Bran castle in Romania
4. Buckingham palace

Pompeii, Mayan Ruins - I just don’t have the imagination to enjoy them as they are literally mainly rubble!!! Was so disappointed by both and would never go and see any ‘ruins’ again.

Niagara falls, not as big as I imagined, but my only real reference to them was from watching superman as a kid!

The pyramids. I couldn’t believe they were right next to a housing estate. Cairo was a shithole too. Would never go back there.

Pyramids at Giza.

@GoodbyeRosie 100% agree about the Natural History Museum, I took my kids in the summer and found it all so dull and overcrowded. Nothing whatsoever of note in there.

Sistine Chapel and the endless amount of art before you get there. See one fat cherub, seen em all

I haven't rtft but I can't be the first person to mention Christ the redeemer. What a waste of time that was. Definitely not a wonder of the world.

The Grand Canyon. It's just a big hole.

I knew this was Stonehenge before I opened the post. I’ll add Versailles - waste of a day that could have been spent chilling out in Paris!!

Edinburgh. It’s a crappy city - I used to live and work there. Festival season is an extra special form of hell. I do like the castle though, and Holyrood.

Grand Canyon was underwhelming, but probably only because I’d already been to Zion and Canyonlands.

Paris is a shithole, though there are some lovely buildings. The Eiffel Tower is horrible and the Mona Lisa is in no way the best painting in the Louvre.

Didn’t rate Cyprus either - not somewhere I’d go back to.

Sydney Opera House... it's kind of cream/ pale beige, making it look grubby

Another vote for Niagara Falls here. I went to the American side and I thought it was like Blackpool but less classy.

I lived there for 6 months and it truly was wonderful wonderful Copenhagen, but I'm another who was underwhelmed by the Little Mermaid.

I think I was expecting it to be the size of the Statue of Liberty and it was a shock to see a small statue sitting on a rock, although it didn't stop me buying a little replica as a souvenir of some very good times.

The Batu Caves. Took ages to get there and very underwhelming. Bora Bora.

Notre dame took my breath away. Truly beautiful

Reading the early posts on here, pp saying they were horrified by the amount of dead coral at the Great Barrier Reef, erm, caused by
pollution from tourists visiting ie pp complaining! And someone moaned that there’s no shelter from the rain at Giants Causeway, well, no shit, Sherlock! Bonkers, along with the pp saying famous ancient monuments are ‘just stones’.

Angel of the North, ugly big industrial corrugated metal structure & the "wings" are so out of proportion, I keep expecting to hear it's keeled over to one side, or one of the wings has snapped off.

I was in awe of Angel of the North!
But..didn't like Malta. Thought it was pretty ugly and soulless, barren. Not being IN the sea..that was stunning, as was the lagoon, but inland.. not very inspiring, and the little harbour towns were just full of rubbish

Hoover Dam was completely meh
The Statue of Liberty is beautiful but so small!

Land’s End. RIP off re photos and very underwhelming.
What a great thread though!

The Blarney Stone.

Niagara falls, not as big as I imagined, The waterfall into the main chamber in Gaping Gill ( a cave in Yorkshire) is higher than the Niagara Falls.

So what? If they want to merely tick off the famous pictures and pose for pictures that's their look out. It doesn't hurt you. It does, if you want to look at the pictures and contemplate them, and your view is blocked by dozens of people waving their mobiles.