Tourist traps: Crowded places where you won't get a moment's rest, featuring nothing more interesting than schlocky souvenier vendors, where you will see more camera-wielding tourists than actual people.

Sometimes you can work around the crowds by visiting when the masses do not, and other times they are so expensive and tiresome that it's just not worth it.

Check out this Forbes magazine list of the worst of them and suggested alternatives.

Of course if you really don't like tourists, you can check out North Korea, where they are truly conspicuous by their absence!

(Image: Fisherman's Warf, San Francisco)

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