The Five Most Obscure Tourist Attractions

If odd is your cup of tea, then get ready to visit the weirdest tourist attractions in the world. Each attraction listed below provides a different visual trip for the senses. If you'd like to drink a few beers with a couple of burros, or even swim with a million jellyfish, then these destinations might be just what you're looking for.

1. International Museum of Toilets

Here's your chance to see a museum dedicated to the history of the toilet. This museum located in Delhi India, proudly displays the evolution of the time honored toilet. If you get tired while in the museum, there's always somewhere to sit down.

The founder envisioned an idea of displaying some of the world's finest toilets, and set up this museum at the Mahavir Enclave in New Delhi. You can check out the locations of all of these attractions at www.mapquest.com/directions.

2. Jellyfish Lake

Maybe you just feel like a little swim to freshen up. Then why not visit Jellyfish Lake at Malk Island in Palau. Here you can snorkel with a million jellyfish as they migrate across the 12,000 year old lake.

Fourteen hours a day these jellyfish make repeated trips across the lake as they rotate counterclockwise at the surface of the lake. This lake is a popular tourist attraction in the area, and a pass is required to access the lake.

3. Beer Drinking Burros

If you need to relax after all of those jellyfish, then sit back and have a few beers with a friendly burro or two. Just a short boat ride from Acapulco sits the beautiful Isle La Roqueta, which is known for its beautiful beaches and also its beer drinking burros.

After a beer with the burros on the beach, sit back and enjoy a nice quiet dinner. But, don't get too comfortable yet, because these burros also love to frequent the dinner tables for dessert. So be careful, these burros just might drink you under the table.

4. Joe's Scarecrow Village

A rather obscure tourist attraction is Joe's Scarecrow Village in Nova Scotia. Twenty minutes south of Cape Breton Nova Scotia, sits a very weird yet wonderful tourist attraction; if you like scarecrows.

This site has been around for 20 years and has been featured in many tourist brochures. Scarecrow Village has dozens of scarecrows dressed up in old clothes with masks. But, behind these masks are very creepy looking eyes. Pay no attention to the scarecrows eyes as they follow you around as you walk.

World leaders such as: Ronald Reagan and Queen Elisabeth II are depicted in these scarecrows. Masks on these figures are from the "Spitting Image" satire back in the 1980's era. This village is easy to locate on the east side of Breton Island.

5. Texas Prison Museum

Take a visit to where some of the nation's least loved citizens once lived, and died. In Huntsville Texas, you can check out the "Last statement" which is a study of the victims, and also the executed.

A collection of prison artifacts are displayed, such as a nickel plated pistol which was found in the "death car" of Bonnie and Clyde. Just make sure that they know you're just visiting when you check out this location, or you might get to sit in "Old Sparky" the infamous electric chair.

Each attraction provides a unique look at life and its many oddities. If bizarre is what you've been looking for, hopefully these attractions will be on the list of places to visit on your next vacation.

Sources of information:

www.flickr.com/photos/tvor/sets/72157607468932259
www.sulabhtoiletmuseum.org
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jellyfish_lake
www.txprisonmuseum.org
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