For an outer-rim swamp planet, the Dagobah Board of Tourism is good at making the place seem pretty awesome. DAGO-BAM!

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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.

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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.

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1. Everything that you could ever want to know about Beefeaters aka Yeomen Warders

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.

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1. “Upon arrival you will be met by guards with dogs.”
2. Pictures from Reuters
3. “If you want to fully enjoy daylight, you have to get into the dark for a while.”
4. “All of the actors involved were originally in the Soviet army and some were authentic interrogators.”
5. “It sounds like Colonial Williamsburg, but harsher.”

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.

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1. Face-to-Face With the Grizzly
2. Video: Grizzly Bear Tourism
3. Great Bear Nature Tours
4. Knight Inlet Lodge
5. The Bears of Bute

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.

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1. Rich White People Need To Get Out More
2. Note: Harlem’s Not Actually A Slum Since The Yuppies Started Moving In
3. “We should at least spare them the ignominy of being reduced to objects of pity.”
4. Meet Street Urchins in India!
5. Check Out Vibrant Soweto Township!
6. All Manner of African Slums!
7. Tour Brazil’s Favelas!