Alternative Tours for Off the Beaten Path Tourists
If you want to explore tourists’ sites that are off the main track, try some of these tour ideas for a change. If you are in a celebrity town, especially Los Angeles, the home of movie star studded Hollywood, hook up with a local guide who can take you on a car or bus tour of the homes of famous stars like James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, and Charlie Chaplin. And you can also visit the sidewalk of stars, where many Oscar winners have a star in their honor. Tour trips will include visits to historical movie sets, restaurants that celebrities frequent, and to the famous sign on a hillside overlooking Hollywood, where you can have your photo taken.
You can also check while in any big city to see if there is a tour agency offering odd tours like those in some cities that take you on ghost tours, to sites where people claim to have experienced the presence of ghosts and spirits. Some towns will take you to ghastly but nonetheless historically important places where famous gangsters were killed, where famous people met ill fates in car crashes, or where famous criminals were born and began a life of murderous crimes. Whatever your cup of tea, there is probably a tour for you, and if you inquire you might be surprised what you find. In Amsterdam, for instance, there are tours especially designed to introduce you to the red light district, where the sex trade is legal and there is even a service worker’s union organized by prostitutes under the auspices of the Dutch government.