Sometimes home really is the best place to be. Especially when you consider these unsavory travel destinations that will make you appreciate the good life we have here in the States.
Pitcairn
Pitcairn is a tiny volcanic island in the beautiful South Pacific Ocean that is primarily populated with the descendants of the Bounty ship mutiny. The total population of the island is only about 50, with a land area of two miles long and one mile wide. To get to Pitcairn, you must travel by longboat from Bounty Bay.
The inhabitants of Pitcairn don’t have to work for a living. Instead, the island residents subsist on selling Pitcairn postage stamps online. The rest of the time they’re free to lie on the sand all day listening to the lapping of the waves on the shoreline.
Sound idyllic? Almost, except that in 2004, a third of the males on the island were charged with child sexual assault, and most were convicted and imprisoned. The dark secret remains an anchor around this seeming island of paradise. In 2010, 25 Pitcairn males were charged with having underage pornography on their computers, and to this day, children cannot visit the island without special permission from authorities.
Alnwick Poison Garden
Adjacent to Alnwick Castle in Northumberland England is a charming little place called the Poison Garden. Originally intended to educate medical practitioners and the public about drugs and other poisons, the garden features plants like hemlock, ricin and foxglove, as well as ones that produce strychnine and more. There’s a quaint welcome sign with skulls and crossbones that declares: “These plants can kill.” Visitors are further warned not to touch or smell any of the plants. Gives you a different perspective on those harmless dandelion weeds in your front yard, right?
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