What is the weirdest place you have visited?

Legs.Eleven · 30-04-2014 06:37AM

San Pedro Prison in La Paz. We had to bribe the guards (who accepted payment like it was something official- they're all in on it) and there were children living in there. Definitely the strangest and most unsettling experience of my entire life. The group of Dutch I went with were too scared to talk, so I was the one left to make idle chit chat with these hardened criminals.

A girl my age at the time was raped and killed the following week doing the same tour we did.

LizzieJones · 30-04-2014 07:06AM

The Bodyworlds exhibit when it came to Toronto one year.
Very freaky.

http://www.bodyworlds.com/en.html

Daveysil15 · 30-04-2014 07:15AM

I got a tour of Auschwitz when I was in Poland. An eerie and haunting place to say the least.

LizzieJones · 30-04-2014 07:18AM

Daveysil15 wrote: »

I got a tour of Auschwitz when I was in Poland. An eerie and haunting place to say the least.

I want to go there sometime. I've a huge interest in WWII history.

Daveysil15 · 30-04-2014 07:23AM

LizzieJones wrote: »

I want to go there sometime. I've a huge interest in WWII history.

Yeah its worth a visit alright. I didn't plan on visiting the place when I was staying in Krakow, but some of the locals insisted that I see it so I organised a bus tour.

Aglomerado · 30-04-2014 08:16AM

Daveysil15 wrote: »

Yeah its worth a visit alright. I didn't plan on visiting the place when I was staying in Krakow, but some of the locals insisted that I see it so I organised a bus tour.

It's worth seeing but boy is it upsetting, I lost my appetite for about two days afterwards.

suicide_circus · 30-04-2014 08:32AM

Aglomerado wrote: »

It's worth seeing but boy is it upsetting, I lost my appetite for about two days afterwards.

Yeah Dachau was fairly grim all round too.

Teyla Emmagan · 30-04-2014 08:35AM

Daveysil15 wrote: »

I got a tour of Auschwitz when I was in Poland. An eerie and haunting place to say the least.

I actually wouldn't go, even if I had the opportunity. I think I'd just find it too much.

suicide_circus · 30-04-2014 08:42AM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I actually wouldn't go, even if I had the opportunity. I think I'd just find it too much.

Pretty horrendous places, people walking around crying etc, the misery and sorrow is still palpable in the air all these years later. I can certainly see who someone on holiday wouldn't go. The point is I suppose, before the holocaust, people would have said **** like that could never actually happen, facing the reality of mans cruelty to man will hopefully prompt us to speak out if we see signs of it again.

jester77 · 30-04-2014 08:51AM

blastman wrote: »

Coober Pedy, Austalia is pretty surreal. Most people live underground and there's a grave in the local cemetery with a tapped keg as a headstone......

Did you get told the story behind it? I was drinking at one of their local watering holes and it made for a funny story. Can't remember exactly how it was told, dudes was a heavy drinker, wife left him for another guy, found out he had terminal cancer, took out lots of debt and went nuts, left the remaining money behind the bar for his mates, wife returned to get her share of his assets and got landed with all the debt.

MarkY91 · 30-04-2014 11:58AM

the sex museum in amsterdam. even worse when you go with your brother :S

Teyla Emmagan · 30-04-2014 12:43PM

MarkY91 wrote: »

the sex museum in amsterdam. even worse when you go with your brother :S

I went with my sister :pac:

Daveysil15 · 30-04-2014 12:44PM

MarkY91 wrote: »

the sex museum in amsterdam. even worse when you go with your brother :S

God I completely forgot about that place.

It was a bit weird but I felt a little disappointed coming out of it. I was expecting more.

jester77 · 30-04-2014 01:00PM

MarkY91 wrote: »

the sex museum in amsterdam. even worse when you go with your brother :S

One of my old companies had their xmas party at the sex museum here in Hamburg. Now that was weird, probably the second weirdest xmas party I've had!

Aglomerado · 30-04-2014 01:00PM

MarkY91 wrote: »

the sex museum in amsterdam. even worse when you go with your brother :S

Is that the one that has a room with toadstools in it that you sit on while watching cartoon sex?

maguic24 · 30-04-2014 01:13PM

HAMMERCURRENT wrote: »

A Hollister shop.

It's like some sort of weird bar/nightclub. You can't see a fecking thing. And who the hell in their right mind pays 90 yoyos for a vest top? The fudge?

anto9 · 30-04-2014 01:49PM

Aglomerado wrote: »

Is that the one that has a room with toadstools in it that you sit on while watching cartoon sex?

Its the one with a lady at the door riding a bicycle with an erect cock as the seat lol .

MarkY91 · 01-05-2014 12:24AM

Aglomerado wrote: »

Is that the one that has a room with toadstools in it that you sit on while watching cartoon sex?

im not sure. i dont remember too much about it. probably because i had been visiting.....coffeeshops earleir that day for.....coffee :cool:

siblers · 01-05-2014 12:38AM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I actually wouldn't go, even if I had the opportunity. I think I'd just find it too much.

I feel the same, it's something I should see but not really something I want to see. I don't think I could handle it at all.

HalloweenJack · 01-05-2014 12:48AM

Bratislava.

In fairness, I've only passed through three or four times but it's just really unsettling. I've spent a lot of time in the Czech Republic (outside of Prague) and I got used to the whole post-Soviet life but Bratislava is totally different (though not the Czech Republic, I know). The train station is well dodgy and the bus station even more so. Even the airport was weird as it was full of Austrians getting cheap flights. I can't really put my finger on what it was but it just seemed like a really depressing city to be in and was a lot more ****ed up than I'd have imagined for the capital of any country.

Gibraltar is also really weird. Essentially, it's full of Spanirads who are obsessed with being British. The second you cross the border from a run-of-the-mill Spanish town, it's like you've stepped into a town in the English midlands. Even the weather changes because the Rock attracts an almost permanent cloud. People in the street will speak Spanish but when they heard me (with my obvious non-Spanish accent) and my Spanish girlfriend speaking Spanish, they'd start pretending that they only speak English and with a really over-the-top accent, too. It was all very mind-boggling.

qwabercd · 01-05-2014 12:52AM

Carcosa. The yellow king scared the sh1t outta me.

thebomb · 01-05-2014 12:57AM

Navan lol

Aglomerado · 01-05-2014 08:13AM

MarkY91 wrote: »

im not sure. i dont remember too much about it. probably because i had been visiting.....coffeeshops earleir that day for.....coffee :cool:

Yeah, the "coffee" has a bit of an impact on memory!

retalivity · 01-05-2014 11:45AM

The bone church in Kutna Hora in the Czech republic was pretty weird but cool all the same. Decorated by the skeletons of 50k+ people, including a chandelier made from every bone in the body

Sedlec Ossuary

Not a strange place looking in but Nerja in spain. Was there for a week years ago met some complete headers.
There was an English guy who allegedly owned a hurley factory in Romania and was looking to undercut expensive irish made hurleys. We all got completely trolleyed and he then tried to ride my (male) mate. Or a crowd of girls from Leeds we hung with who had inexplicably brought their 12-13 year old siblings out on the piss with them every night, feeding them Smirnoff ices.
Beautiful place, but had a small plaza of bars that seemed to attract mad English yokes

guinnessdrinker · 01-05-2014 08:59PM

I was in somewhere in downtown Manhattan one night on my way to meet friends in a pub. As I was walking to it I was caught short and needed to get to a toilet. There were no public toilets in the area and no other pubs/cafes either and I was a fair distance from my intended destination.

As I walked on I spotted a bar entrance down a dark side street. Outside was a security doorman dressed as a cop, I asked him could I use the bar's bathroom. He said I couldn't unless I was a paying customer so I had no choice but to pay the $10 entry fee into the bar. Then as I was about to pay he asked me for I.D. (I was about 24 or 25 at the time!). I remember at the time thinking it was mental to have to pay $10 just to use the toilet and then to also have to produce I.D. to actually get into the place.

Anyway I eventually got by the doorman and walked down a dark flight of stairs into the bar. What greeted me was like something out of a surreal David Lynch film. Not sure how to explain it but the place had a grey and blue smokey vibe to it. The clientelle were very well dressed goth and punk types and a strange kind of music was being played as if the speakers were placed behind a wall in another room. I stood out like a sore tumb in my jeans and t-shirt! I quickly used the bathroom facilities and got out of there but looking back I kind of regret not staying on for a drink or two while I was there.

Samsgirl · 01-05-2014 09:11PM

Leitrim!

cactuspaw · 01-05-2014 11:06PM

Well of late? the A&E of a small town in northern cyprus.

broke my leg on holidays, but they couldn't tell me it was broke as nobody (bar one nurse on a smoke break in the waiting room) spoke english.
The x-ray guy, wouldnt call him a radiographer, turned up in nike runners, stone washed jeans and a tight pink t-shirt that said somthing in turkish in glitter. He looked like he had just come in from a night on the lash. The equipment he used looked like somthing from an old medical demonstration video. When he scanned my leg, he put me back on the trolly the wrong way round and I was left outside to mind a dog in the waiting room.

Eventualy I was brought in to get a cast, i had no idea this was happening as i had nobody to tell me. I was wheeled on a trolly through coridoors of what looked like, i dont know, somthing from a war zone make shift hospital. I think I saw a goat at one stage. I got the cast in a tine store room where 4 members of staff (I dont know if they were nurses or attendants or what) where on their smoke break. I guy put it on with a pallet knife and plaster from an old bucket. Cleaning products fell off the walls as he worked. Twas all sureal. I didnt know what was coming next!

When it was finished I was left outside in a building site. just left. the attendant/porter guy just pushed me out the door of the place on the trolly into where builders were working, beside the cement mixer. he lit up his rothman and wandered back. I was left wondering, is that it? Is my leg broke? WTF?

most bizarre experience ever.

seamonkey92 · 01-05-2014 11:13PM

BallyHaunis. Never. Again.

Toots · 02-05-2014 12:09AM

Tully in Australia. Their town landmark was a giant gold welly that was supposed to represent the annual rainfall there one year. Everything was closed on Sunday and the "internet cafe" was a weird greasy spoon affair with a wheezy old desktop PC from circa 1995 plonked on a table in the corner.

JohnMearsheimer · 02-05-2014 12:40AM

Anchorage. It really did have an end of western civilisation feel to it....which I loved!

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