This Sitcom House Is Considered the Most Boring Tourist Trap in California
When you're lost out there and you're all alone, a light is waiting to carry you home — at least that’s the promise of the Full House theme song. But what happens when you get to that home? According to the travel site Far & Wide, a whole lot of nothing.
The house where Danny Tanner provided shelter for assorted children, in-laws and Joey Gladstone’s hand puppets is an actual home in San Francisco that attracts a daily stream of fans. Here’s the problem: People live there, so no one can go inside.
That’s why Far & Wide named the Full House house the most boring tourist trap in the Golden State. Here’s their review: “California is a gigantic state with a ton of tourist traps, but we can’t think of any one more polarizing than the Full House house. It’s mobbed by fans on a daily basis, and that really annoys the locals. It also creates traffic and safety issues, and you can’t just waltz inside because it’s a private residence. (It hit the market in 2019 for a cool $6 million.) Even getting an exterior shot is tricky, because you have to stand in the middle of a busy street. At best, you’ll get a blurry selfie and a ton of dirty looks from neighbors. How rude!”
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Far & Wide didn’t do a nationwide ranking, but the Full House house has some stiff competition from lame travel destinations in other states. Here are more boring tourist traps around our great nation…
Idaho: Center-of-the-Universe Manhole
Wallace, Idaho’s water supply is so contaminated that the whole town has been declared a Superfund site. The mayor’s response to drum up tourism? A manhole declaring itself the center of everything God ever created. Can you prove it’s not?
Louisiana: The Pyramid Tomb of Nicolas Cage
Cage pissed off New Orleans locals by planting a huge pyramid in the middle of an exclusive cemetery for his future afterlife home.
Indiana: World’s Largest Ball of Paint
Alexandria is home to a huge glob that sounds right out of a David Letterman bit from the ‘80s. Then again, how far would you drive to see a baseball covered in 24,000 coats of paint?
Nevada: Dig This
If you’re in Vegas, someone will take hundreds of dollars from you so that you can play inside a Caterpillar excavator. Yes, you’re paying big money to dig a hole.
Ohio: The House from ‘A Christmas Story’
We’re back where we started, but the house from A Christmas Story is a way better attraction than the one from Full House. For starters, you can go inside! And for the bargain price of 20 bucks, you can get a guided tour of a building that’s been refurbished to actually match the movie’s sets. You can even spend the night (for more money, of course). You might actually have to pack up the station wagon and drive to Cleveland for this one.
