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💯 I always wonder what tourists who have to rent a car and such to get there think. It is such a joke.

My most disappointing landmark was the Hill of Tara in Ireland. Supposed to be the high seat of the kings of Ireland! Just some mounds and no context or anything. Like, gimme some plaques and stuff!

worst zen garden 0/10

Look, any excuse for a school field trip is valid.

Someone should stick a Danish flag on it.

Oh, so that’s why all those extra ammo boxes and health potions are lying around right outside of Plymouth Bay.

Similar to the Liberty Bell or the Rocky Statue in Philadelphia. A backdrop for an “I was here” photo.

this rock irks me lmao

still, it's exhilarating to imagine the pilgrims sailing all the way from England on it.

Like Trump's hands: small.

it'd be great if it somehow could be combined with the Blarney Stone

It used to be bigger. A *lot* bigger...

☠️ omg. We were like wtf! That said, we got lobster bisque at some shack on that street that was life changing so a win!

In the Netherlands there is a 'location of a former fort' somewhere in the woods. That is basically just a sign in the woods that says 'it was here' and then there is a very slight hill in the landscape. But at least it isn't a famous landmark, but was really funny to once walk past it.

I went to high school in Plymouth. A friend of mine was one of the "rangers" who'd give regular history talks about the Rock and at one point he'd just start making up random facts so the talk would be more interesting.

The Plymouth Rock site is ridiculous, but if you get a good ranger when you’re there, they will at least make it entertaining. The Massasoit statue and Metacomet plaque nearby are more interesting.

Plenty of other good things to see in Plymouth

As I child I thought I was being taken to see Gibraltar

Damn, and I thought the Blarney stone was a bonerkiller

talk about precision tho. pilgrims LANDED on that thing

wait til you find out it was named after a corporation that was providing the colonies with labor that also happened to own the mayflower

I mean, its a rock

Well they did have to cage this poor rock, else it would be going buck wild for the last 200 years and THEN where would we be??

Plymouth Rock rocks, I don’t care if everyone hates it

Wow, and I thought Manneken Pis seemed overrated. It’s a quite small statue. 19” tall. The one by the street is a replica. You could easily walk by and not notice. They dress it up sometimes for fun. Beats the hell out of that rock though.

do folks be dragging their balls on it like the blarney stone tho?

To be fair to Plymouth rock, it got broken in half and people chipped off thousands of pounds of it. That being said going to see it is VERY uunderwhelming

The recreated village the mayflower are what makes that area fun. But yeah, a rock is a rock lol

I always thought it was like the name given to a rocky outcrop, like a cape, or something. Why is it notable?!

But in the cartoon it was so cool! And there is a catchy song!

The tourist equivalent of trying Turkish Delight for the first time.

What takes this one from good to great is all the people standing around looking at it. As if they were waiting at the Snake House at the zoo to see if the boa constrictor was going to do anything.

not fair, you didn't get its good side.

I love Plymouth as a town but the rock is honestly in "so bad it's good" territory

Thinking I wish it had been a lot slipperier. A lot.

Worst karesansui ever.

Ok so I always assumed Plymouth Rock was the name of an area. Like a cliff system or an inlet. A place. You're telling me it's just an actual rock? As in a big pebble, or a small boulder?

Mayflower II is right there close by though!

All those years of people rubbing it for good luck wore it down, so they had to put a fence around it.😛

I've smoked bigger rocks.

The Plymouth Rock story never happened, that's actually just the soundstage where the filmed the fake pilgrim landing, like they did with the moon landing

haha I knew this before I went but my husband and I went on a whim on our way back to Iowa from Maine (because it’s… en route… if you squint at the map…) and we were the only people there on that horrible early January day.

Lort, what boat did people land on it with, a tub toy?

Holy shit! That’s it? I always assumed it was the name of some sort of rocky headland or cliff!!

But it’s ass up. So that’s funny. 😆

I assumed 'rock' was an old timey way to mean a cliff or something, like there would be a whole beach under Plymouth Rock

It is the federal government's pet rock.

Plymouth Rock is the Pink Himalayan Salt of tourist attractions.

They say it's actually a Chrysler rock dressed up to look like a Plymouth.

Australia knows how to do rocks.

Wait until you see the “Little Rock” in LR, AR.

The first time I saw it I got so angry.

The rock just sits alone being mocked by the wall blocks for being undressed.

⬆️ This

couple of times i’ve visited, there were always crowds of upset and confused foreign tourists trying to convince themselves they were not in the right place

Our whole fam drove a long way to see it around 1972 and my dad took one look down and said, How'd the Pilgrims get through the bars? I miss him.

The people looking entirely nonplussed always kills me

I still think “Juliet’s Balcony” in Verona is the lamest, specifically because it’s literally some random building with a balcony, and the person it’s attributed to is… y’know… fictional.

Our whole country is built on a lie.

The amazing part always is that the pilgrams were able to reach the rock despite the walls around it.

Geeze, they should rig a speaker to play the Price is Right Loser Horn as you view it.

They should let people take turns raking the sand like a giant zen garden

They used to just have it out where you could chip a piece off. Then someone worried that they'd run out of rock. The answer being that they'd just haul in another reassured no one.

I enjoyed my time there because we were in for a wedding and there was fun to be had. But I was BAFFLED by the rock itself.

The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen also raising her tiny hand!

Ja - ich war auch tief enttäuscht, als ich Kind war.

Shh. No one tell Malcolm X.

We went, we saw, we said "meh"

NO KILL I

Who gets to do the zen garden style raking?

Watching people slowly realize what they’re looking at is a fun side quest there.

What I imagined plymouth to be like before I knew

I kinda like it. Look, they raked around it like a zen garden. We went as a kid and I liked it. It’s a good place to meditate about America, or something.

how much smaller were people 400 years ago?

Haven’t you heard of the internet?

My local Chamber of Commerce is about to DMCA takedown this post

I mean, it is a rock 🤷‍♀️

The White Rock in White Rock is more impressive. Admittedly, they named it because there was a big boulder on a random beach, but it is at least a boulder the size of a garage.

I saw it in the 70s, coming from the west coast of Canada. Truly disillusioned. I heard a great podcast about the myth podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

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It’s almost like a joke when you get inside.

I was severely disappointed by the Alamo but this rock is definitely way less impressive

Hey, it’s genius that the made a tourist attraction of out a rock. Pure genius.

This would improve it.

Tied with that shitty bell in Philadelphia

When I went in the 1980s someone had thrown an old gym sock in the enclosure and I took a pic and named it Plymouth Sock. That made it into the book report of my summer vacation.

Lol. It's Spinal Tap.

Everything about this woman says disappointment. Katheryn Jost would play her. Viewer #2 looks angry. #3 is either praying to her heritage god (boo) or asking for strength to get back into whatever conveyance delivered her and her family there without becoming homicidal.

We went there when I was a kid, and yeah, a lot of “that’s it?”

Hang on….do they RAKE the sand? Like one of those stupid Japanese zen rock gardens?

Pffft. Ive been to Plymouth, they've got loads of rocks, thats nothing. The real Plymouth has even got a Hoe Road as every good port town should.

it just looks like a sourdough boule

I don’t believe it. No way it’s that small.

The sand is very prettily maintained, though.

Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen is pretty underwhelming, but not compared to Plymouth Rock.

Wow. I move bigger rocks than that at work with just levers

My favorite part is the plaque that says “This rock is meaningless and somebody broke it but please just look at it anyway”

Is there a good gift shop at least? Buy a pet rock or something?

I thought for a minute this was Plymouth in the UK. Part of it does feel spiritually British

No The Ute Ceremonial Tree beats the Plymouth Rock.

They should have picked a bigger rock, those idiots

it felt much more impressive as a kid to me, tbf lol

I've heard there is a bench a short distance away that is popular though- for people-watching the disappointment.

#seriouslyyouthoughtthiswastheactualrock?

From Plymouth Steps, Devon to Plymouth Rock, MA...😘 A special relationship.

I recall being disappointed and unimpressed upon seeing Plymouth Rock as a child. That may have been the start of me doubting everything I was told.

At least it won’t escape from its enclosure this time.

Grew up in Plymouth. The Rock was the most reliable tourist attraction when it came to scoring money for cigs from all the spare change tourists toss down there.

It's a Zen garden

Relatedly, see the meteor crater BEFORE the Grand Canyon. Not the other wat around

That was one of my grandfather's favorite postcards, which was printed in a sepia tone. He said it looked like a "turd".

OH MY FUCKING GOD, LOOK AT THAT FUCKING ROCK!! HOLY SHIT I NEED TO SIT!!

"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, the rock was landed on us." Malcolm X