What is the weirdest place you've ever visited?

Question

You think you've seen it all but these cities will make you look again. Click here to see Lonely Planet's 10 most eccentric cities. http://au.travel.yahoo.com/tenbest/eccen…

How about you? Have you been to one of these places or have you visited somewhere even more eccentric? What is the weirdest place you've ever visited?

Answer 1

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I have been to 5 of your 10, but have not seen everything there
is to see in any of them.

Red China was just emerging from it's cocoon when I first visited
in Oct 88. It was still very backward. Our city guide told us
that there were only about 50 to 100 privately owned vehicles
in that big city. Most of the delivery trucks were 3 wheel bicycles
and there were mule carts active in the streets plus millions of bikes
as well as trams and buses. Most everybody was friendly and waved to us. In Tianamin square people were lined up in orderly lines 4 abreast
to see Mao. The lines stretched as far as we could see.

Also found much of interest in Australia and little New Zeeland

Source(s):

tours

Answer 2

It was probably Greece. I went to Rhodes Island which is this amazingly historic island in the Greek Islands. It's the place for one of the ancient wonders of the world so should be steeped in local culture and history. Instead the English have taken it over as a resort island and everywhere you go there are advertisements for eggs and beans for breakfast and everything is in English. What a disappointment. Some people never leave the resort pool and don't see some of the amazing areas of the island.
Another strange place was outside of Washington. We stayed in this hotel in Maryland and in the 2 days we were there, met the rudest most horrible people. Most of my time in America people were very pleasant but we saw two female fist fights (one on the bus and one in a supermarket) and were totally ignored by people we tried to talk to. People just seemed so unhappy and it was such a difference to the America we'd seen in central Washington and in Boston. I guess it shows you what life is really like when you get off the tourist trail.

Answer 3

Probably the countryside. If you're a city person and you go to the countryside, its a total different dimension for you.

Answer 4

Sweden!
The Swedes are a wacked out bunch of squares!
They have to do everything by the book, or else!
I usually pinch myself and laugh till I cry when I think
of all the absurdities such as; insrtuctions on a toothpick packet and from a dentist who took US$10 to instruct me about using a toothpick!
Tubes of everything, the qiuet smart @ss radical ( well they claim that tthey are) who have opinions about everything and the underlying racis which leaches through the whole Swedish society this is in the world's ost equal society????

Answer 5

Las Vegas must be sad it is not the weirdest. They try so hard to be ... yet I visited a friend who lives there and it is mainly the visitors that support the weirdness there. Locals avoid the BIG casinos.

Guanajato does have amazing mummies, but apart from that, the town is very welcoming to tourists, not weird.

I have been to about 25 countries and looked for not-your-normal-tourist locations. The WEIRDEST place I went to was:
Luckenbach, Texas (about 50 miles west of Austin)
it had a population of 3 during the week (and 2 of them were dogs), but 200 on weekends.
Basically, Luchenbach is a pub where country music parties hard. I heard they also have armadillo races.

In Australia, driving across the Nullabor is an experience. It has the longest stretch of straight road in the world.
When you drive at night, you see a motorcycle coming towards you ... 40 mins later, you realize that there are 2 headlights, 20 mins after that, you pass the truck that was coming at 70 + miles/hr.

They are about to open a golf course crossing two time zones and stretching 848 miles. (See link below)

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/58…

Answer 6

Quartzsite Arizona USA.

It's a small town on the (Interstate 10) from California to Phoenix, with a population of about 2000 I think.

Silly Al's Bar/diner have a Karaoke night on wednesday nights, if memory serves. It's Country and Western, and is mainly elderly retired people there doing the singing. Wow! Take your video camera.

I guarantee you will never forget the experience!

Source(s):

Personal experience.

Answer 7

In this dimension that would have to be New Zealand, not a good experience for me. =/

In other dimensions u don't want to know, furthermore u would never believe me if I told u.

Answer 8

garlic market in the village of Iguassu - Argentina

Answer 9

All of the places I go to are lovely and are so NOT weird so sorry I don't have an answer to your question~

xoxo

Answer 10

Savo Island in the Solomon Islands. - no power, no electricity, no stores, no resorts, no modern amenities and yet so close to Australia.

Answer 11

Possibly riding on the bamboo train in Phnom Penh.

A "train" that can be dismantled and removed from the single track when necessary. It is necessary when confronting another bamboo train travelling in the opposite direction..

Hint- Make sure the line is unoccupied when the big regular train is scheduled.

Answer 12

Birds-ville when they have the Races it is carnival, When you drink there you drop can or plastic cup where ever the next morning they have cleaned it up

Answer 13

THE DEAD SEA!! in Jordan the middle east.
Its dead in the sense where nothing at all lives in the water!!
No fish no plants and its got such high salt content that you cant really swim,you just float"you can even read the paper while lying on your back or almost like sitting in the water.
The mud is great there for your skin people cover themselves in it and look like monsters from the swamp.

Answer 14

The New Parliament House Canberra ACT Australia.
The humidity in this place was very bad & the sweat was pouring out of everyone in our tour group.
When asked by out group leader the tour guide said "that the humidity was caused by all the hot air coming out of the politicians in the parliamentary chambers"
We all laughed at this remark because it was so true of all politicians around the world to just blow hot air & do nothing for the people of their country.

Source(s):

tour 2008

Answer 15

In the Czech Republic there is a small town called Kutna Hora and there you will find the Sedlec ossuary. There are only two in the world (the other one in Portugal somewhere), basically it is a church which is decorated with human bones. Every pillar, the archways, the chandelier, everything!!!!!!!!

Source(s):

My two eyes

Answer 16

I was on a Contiki tour in Europe last year and this place was literally no mans land between the Austrian and Hungarian borders ... we stopped there for lunch so it was like a shopping centre, but not. It had a big diner in gothic medieval style including wizards and dragons on the roof, yet next door was another cafe with a real jumbo jet for playing in and a massive globe of the world. There were other weird things there as well as a perfectly normal shopping centre with clothes stores and stuff. It was weird but made for some great photos!

Answer 17

Rotorua, in New Zealand.
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Answer 18

Nimbin New South Wales, Australia. Its a town based around legalizing pot, lots of trippy people. The museum is a bout pot, every shop is about pot. Graffiti is legal. Very hippy culture.

Answer 19

weird classrooom while the classmates dress like Ms Maple, Mrs Doubt Fire, Alfred Hitchcook, and the teacher like to wear very reddish colour.....

Answer 20

bencubbin,its 350ks south east of perth,and it has a pub and a general store and thats it, and i wonder why anybody lives there-its weird.i entertained at the pub there for 2 nites but the town has nothing.Its very quiet there but thats the only thing going for it.

Answer 21

Chicken, Alaska USA.
Most desolate, frozen, isolated tiny group of ramshackle dwellings in the modern world.

Burnt into my brain is the memory of the only toilet available for use.

A flimsy timber structure surrounding a hole in the ground brimming with frozen human waste.

Ughhh!

Source(s):

Been there

Answer 22

The weirdest place that I have visited is Culture village in Seim Reap of Kingdom of Cambodia .It is the best place that I have visited ,it look like so large but it is so small and had any showing about many culture with many aditional of many country .It displays more culture by dance , aditional habbit ect. you can choose a guide to explain you about everything in it coz it can make we lost way to find anywhere for looking somethings . We can go in it by paid alittle money only 10 dollar a person.I think everyone will want like me .

Answer 23

Recent trip to Africa i was in a small tin boat crossing from zambia to botswana. At a specific point in the river crossing i was at the border of 4 countries - botswana, zambia, zimbabwe and namibia.
only place on the planet where 4 countries borders meet!

Answer 24

St. Lucia
On the bus from the airport the bus was stormed by soldiers faces covered in paint/camouflage we all had to get off the bus but they were only on practice manoeuvres, great way to greet visitors, the sheets hadn't been changed on the bed and there were no towels,(4*hotel) "oh just a little oversight" said housekeeping. The door didn't have lock, so I spent the night sitting on the floor against the door, and when we walked out from our ground floor room onto the beach in the morning there was a cows head ( no cow) right on our doorstep.
On the beach we were constantly asked if we would like to buy some dope.
And the desk clerk begged us to take him home with him.
Oh yes soap was US$5 a bar disproving the old saying no matter how poor you are you can always be clean.

Answer 25

the big banana coffs harbour, its pretty weird as it is a giant banana and i got a banana shaped drink bottle from there

Answer 26

the weirdest place would have to be a pet cemetery in South Africa. I was walking in the "veld" and came across this clearing with the most facinating little hand made headstones and crosses. I spent a few hours there taking photos and jotting down the interesting words on the "headstones" . maybe I was the weird one..lol

Answer 27

Byron Bay,NSW.Hippies(mainly aging-very) and pot everywhere.

Answer 28

My mother and I visited Devil's Punchbowl in England and stayed at a hotel room above a pub. The pub didn't want outsiders to eat or drink there so we were snubbed. If you have ever seen "An American Werewolf in London" that is how we were treated. That evening, there was an amazing electrical storm with lightening and thunder and when the thunder hit in the punchbowl (a meteor crater), it would echo off of the walls of the punchbowl.

The next day, we walked along the moors to the punchbowl and learned that every year, some hikers walk in but never walk out. The strangest thing is that for the past 19 years, I've tried to find Devil's Punchbowl on a map and haven't had any luck. Very strange!!!

Source(s):

Personal experience.

Answer 29

A tiny village in the mountains of Bulgaria. The town population was largely Turkish, with some native Bulgarian so I learned a few words in the native tongue but still couldn't communicate with most people. I was sort of a curiosity to most of the people since they had never seen a real American before, lol. It was a farming community, they kept livestock (often in very close proximity to their homes - where I stayed, I had to walk right by where they kept cows and goats to get from the house to the street!). Every evening, the streets were packed with herds of cows, sheep and goats being herded home for the night. Also, the only place that had running water was the community school. Everyplace else had water if the rain was sufficient, but otherwise had to fetch it from the school. I think only one person owned a washing machine; everyone else did laundry by hand. All this, and all the kids/teens had their own mobile phone and loved Shakira.... go figure! Western culture really has invaded everywhere it seems...

Answer 30

James Fletcher psychiatric Hospital is one

Source(s):

being a patient there

Answer 31

Tokyo, Japan. I felt as if I was simultaneously in the future and the past. You take a right turn and you are in an centuries old temple full of people in Kimonos praying they way they have prayed for centuries. You take a left turn and you find yourself in a futuristic wonderland with more gadgets per square meter then people and the young and old so totally wired-in that it makes most western countries look as if they were in the stone-ages. Then there is the social aspect of the conservative mixed in with the weird. It's the single most bizarre place I have been to in my entire life. I highly recommend people make a point of visiting Japan at least once in their lifetime.