Eric Lurio: Essential Tourist Traps, Part One: Introduction
Back when I was a kid, first lady Ladybird Johnson announced the “See America First” Campaign. Travel America before going to Europe or the Middle East. There’s a lot to see in the US of A, and almost all of them are tourist traps: expensive hotels, cheesy souvenirs and lousy restaurants, you know the drill.
But a few of the things this cheesiness surrounds just have to be seen. It’s a mandatory part of a person’s well-rounded education, designated by the federal, state and local governments to be worthy of preservation. A few of these have also been designated as such by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, as World Heritage sites.
I’m not sure what exactly UNESCO, uses as criteria for designating them. For instance what exactly is there to see at the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands? I know that something important happened there, but since it was repeatedly nuked in the 1950s and ’60s, what exactly is there to see or preserve?
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