I hear you, but also, those places can be extremely fun. Went to a roadside “museum” a few years ago, lots of wax figures, and a huge perfectly scaled miniature of the white house that was actually on display in the white house at some point. I brought family back several times. It was so kitschy and fun! 10/10 would go again. Florida is full of these, not just amusement parks. (Ripleys believe it or not “museum” in Orlando is a total ripoff, not worth the entry fee)
Also locally though there are at least a dozen real museums within an hour of me, don’t want to dox myself but literally world class museums of artists you have 100% heard of and then others you’ve 25% heard of. Really wonderful. Many more if you include the surrounding couple hours.
Also, the US has a lot of “museums” that are operated primarily as tax shelters.
Some collector out there wants to dodge some taxes? He opens up a nonprofit org and starts a ‘museum’ of his collection display … open every 3rd Tuesday, between the hours of 10:00PM and 10:15PM … unless there’s a federal holiday anytime in that month, in which case the museum is closed. Then he can do things like dodging property taxes due to the property being a nonprofit museum, counting purchases for his collection as tax-deductible donations to the museum, etc.
Roadside tourist traps don’t count America.
I hear you, but also, those places can be extremely fun. Went to a roadside “museum” a few years ago, lots of wax figures, and a huge perfectly scaled miniature of the white house that was actually on display in the white house at some point. I brought family back several times. It was so kitschy and fun! 10/10 would go again. Florida is full of these, not just amusement parks. (Ripleys believe it or not “museum” in Orlando is a total ripoff, not worth the entry fee)
Also locally though there are at least a dozen real museums within an hour of me, don’t want to dox myself but literally world class museums of artists you have 100% heard of and then others you’ve 25% heard of. Really wonderful. Many more if you include the surrounding couple hours.
You vastly underestimate the number of roadside tourist traps.
Yea, there’s 33k roadside tourist traps in the original 13 colonies alone.
Also, the US has a lot of “museums” that are operated primarily as tax shelters.
Some collector out there wants to dodge some taxes? He opens up a nonprofit org and starts a ‘museum’ of his collection display … open every 3rd Tuesday, between the hours of 10:00PM and 10:15PM … unless there’s a federal holiday anytime in that month, in which case the museum is closed. Then he can do things like dodging property taxes due to the property being a nonprofit museum, counting purchases for his collection as tax-deductible donations to the museum, etc.