20 of the Worst Places People Have Ever Visited

Zinc, Arkansas sounds kinda scary
20 of the Worst Places People Have Ever Visited

If you have the money, traveling is one of the best things you can do with it. Witnessing the majesty of the Mona Lisa, the sensory overload of Dubai or literally any taco truck in Mexico is a peak human experience better than any comparably priced gadget. Also, you get to tell everyone for the rest of your life that their favorite fast-food tacos aren’t real Mexican food, and you can’t put a price tag on being annoying.

Not everywhere on Beyoncé’s green earth is worth seeing, though. Dotted between the breathtaking beaches and imposing museums are disgustingly polluted cities, barren wastelands and slums that reek of despair, among other things (and that’s just California). However they got that way — and it was probably horrific greed and oppression — they’re best avoided. That’s why user upmed2006 asked r/AskReddit, “What is the shittiest place you’ve ever visited?”

Peanut-Expert 3y ago Us side of Niagara falls
the_less_great_wall 3y ago Clovis, New Mexico. It permanently smells like cow shit there
MakeTVGreatAgain 3y ago Barstow, CA. Imagine if an entire town was one big sketchy ass truck stop.
NaturalClone 3y ago Eureka, CA. Absolutely filled with meth heads and the most cultured place is a bagel shop.
3y ago Las Vegas is a pit. Even the Strip is just glitter over dog poop.
Wild_Flock_of_Bears Зу ago Downtown St. Louis. Man, that shit was depressing. Y'all ever seen boarded up skyscrapers?
unispex 3y ago Butte, Montana. Whole town feels like a run-down crack den. Which is sad, considering the natural beauty that surrounds it.
mischeifmanaged07 3y ago Edited Зу ago Gary, Indiana. Apologies to those who live there, but it's kinda like the armpit of America. It reeks of a town that was once a cool place to be but has just been left to the wayside.
BrownShadow 3y ago Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, 1985. I think my Mom and aunt went to buy cheap liquor. Great idea. Take three kids under five to what seemed like a war zone for booze. Ahhhh, the 80's.
thefakecornholio 3y ago Slough. Where the U.K. office is set. It's grey. The mood. The city. The sky. The type of place where 12 year olds will be drunk on the high street at 4pm. A very depressing city.
Зу ago Don't get me wrong. I love Hanoi and most of Vietnam but the in the old quarter of Hanoi the sewage tends to seep up into the gutter due to ancient broken pipes. When a waft hits you in +30c heat and high humidity I'm not sure there's much worse than that.
eleven_eighteen 3y ago Edited 3y ago Fresno California was pretty shitty when I was there in the early 2000s. I'd swear half the businesses in what I think was the downtown area were bail bonds places. Coffee shop, bail bonds, yarn store, bail bonds, record shop, bail bonds...
Lonesome_Kanye_West . 3y ago Roswell, NM. It was a bucket list destination for me, but the town was such a disappointment. The Alien museum felt lackluster and the whole area gave me sad burnt-out vibes. Bottomless Lakes State Park just outside of town was beautiful, though.
Small-Read9284 3y ago Zinc, Arkansas. It felt like I stumbled into the movie set for House of Wax, Children of the Corn and Deliverance all in one place. They had a hair salon/mechanic/courthouse/ jail all in one building. The judge's wife was the hair stylist, the judge was also the mechanic and the sheriff was his son. Fuck. That. Shit.
PoliteBrick2002 3y ago Edited 3y ago I live in New Zealand, and to get from my city to the country's biggest city Auckland you used to have to drive through a town called Huntly. I don't care how nice the locals might make it seem, it is the ugliest, dirtiest most feral place I've been in this country. Thankfully, they put in a highway about 1-2 years ago so you can now bypass it.
BlueonBlack26 Зу ago Myrtle Beach SC is REAL shitty. Nothing but aging cement run down hirise hotels, breakfast joints, infinity t-shirt places and cheesy Ripley S believe it or not attractions - And parking garages. And Crackheads. So many crackheads and John's trolling for 5 dolla blowjobs. Used to be a fun family place that also has great places to go dancing in the 80s. It's hot garbage now.
QwertyvsDvorak Зу ago I was helping friends move across the country and I called my husband one night when we stopped. Не said, Where have you gotten to? and I said, I don't know but it's the ugliest place I've ever seen in my life, and he said, Oh, you've gotten to Midland Odessa, and he was correct. I have seen a lot of the world and Midland Odessa, Texas, is by far the most terrible place I've ever looked at.
gonzagylot00 3y ago The Salton Sea made me sad. There was so much hope around this place. Now if you visit: it's a very poor town, the sand sucks your shoes off and smells awful, and the stench of dead fish permeates the air. Now their only bar presents as a David Lynch nightmare if you go.
arch_dawg_01 3y ago East St. Louis, Illinois. I worked on a project there for over a year and most of the town is a post apocalyptic landscape. Abandoned factories and houses, packs of wild dogs, and extreme poverty. We found a bloody clever in our porta potty one day. Witnessed numerous violent interactions with prostitutes, pimps, and John's. The soils around our worksite were contaminated with lead, gas, benzene, and just about any noxious chemical you can think of. The worst was the smells. On top of the usual garbage/burning garbage smell it alternated between a confection bakery and a
JeetKuneBro Зу ago I've been to Mexican slums, Ukrainian farms, and Costa Rican dive bars. So, New Jersey.

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