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Culture Buzz Here's a guide to New York City that's actually useful for once. Leave the boring old Empire State Building to the sad tourists who don't know where to find Spiderman's house. (HUGE thank you to all the awesome BuzzFeeders who contributed to this.*)
If I see another planking post on BuzzFeed again, I'm going to–aww! Bid farewell to planking by looking at these cuties.
Come to search for your missing daughter! Stay because you’re trapped in an alternate dimension! (Via)
Sports Buzz The only thing more awesome than the Statue of Liberty is people posing as the Statue of Liberty in front of the Statue of Liberty. Is that a confusing overstatement? No, not at all. Also if you have any of your own please add them below.
Using data from Flickr and Picasa, Eric Fischer created a map that shows which spots in NYC are being photographed by locals (blue) and which by tourists (red). Some of this is pretty much as expected, but the concept is cool as all hell. (Via @aptpat.)
Eyjafjallajokull gave Iceland kind of a bad image recently, but this lovely promotional video should go a someway towards correcting that.
Korea is the best country. They hate the homeless sexual there. Click through for literally all of your Korea needs.
Various places we visit, live, or never ever want to go back to. [Ed Note: Which is most places, honestly. But you'll figure that out as you get older.]
For an outer-rim swamp planet, the Dagobah Board of Tourism is good at making the place seem pretty awesome. DAGO-BAM!
Have you ever actually been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa? It really does look a lot like this — don't lie though, after you took this picture you totally held up the tower yourself.
Those Buckingham Palace guards with the furry hats are not pleased when you taunt them. That guard is technically not a Beefeater (those can only be found at the Tower of London), but it's more fun to say than generic “palace guard,” so we're going with it.
Culture Buzz Ever wanted to be interrogated by the KGB? Those dreams can become reality at this theme park near Vilnius, Lithuania. Išgyvenimo Drama is a former Soviet bunker that has been turned into an immersion-style tourist experience, complete with guard dogs and interrogations. Visitors are given threadbare Communist coats and forced to sing the Soviet anthem. Book your trip now and learn what life in America will be like after proven Communist Barack Obama seizes power on January 20.
Business Buzz Setting off to see bears in the wild is a growing eco-tourism trend. Despite documentary evidence that spending too much time around grizzlies can be dangerous to your health (they attack!), it’s a booming niche travel market, and guides insist it’s safe.
Culture Buzz Travel guru Arthur Frommer issues a call to slumming. Sort of like dark tourism, but instead of visiting places of tragic world-historical importance, you stop by the overlooked neighborhoods of the poor.
Houston was photographed outside Tru Hollywood Nightclub in Los…
