Gosh your posts are rude.
Yes, they are. Write daft things and people will laugh at you. It’s a rule of life.
The OP asked for destinations that were surprisingly good. As in, foreign destinations that are little visited by tourists but with a surprising amount to offer, or U.K. cities that people wouldn’t consider visiting as a tourist but are actually great fun and more attractive than you would think.
Predictably, a load of people have read the OP and thought, well, I don’t really have a response that fits the question but I really want to talk about myself and/or boast about my exotic travels. Thus I will mention that I have seen dawn breaking over the pyramids, or that the Grand Canyon took my breath away, or that one of the most visited cities in Europe, stuffed full of historical jewels (York) was ‘surprisingly good’ because it’s got, er, a wall and a river. Or that Venice is beautiful. Or I might just hijack the thread to inform everyone that the university I attended is ‘really good’ even when it isn’t, because somebody mentioned the city it is in.
Because all of the places I listed by name in the previous paragraph are so little regarded by tourists that any visitor would be pleasantly surprised.
When, unsurprisingly, this disingenuous nonsense is laughed at, the response is either (1) you’re so rude and cruel, why won’t you just let me get on with boasting about my travels? or (2) er, what I really meant was, I thought that [insert name of world heritage site here] would be rubbish because of being crowded but it wasn’t, all right?
As if crowds would make e.g. Abu Simbel less impressive. Although somebody upthread said that Cardiff was rubbish because of the rain, so nothing would surprise me.