Five Best Places For Trash Tourism: Garbage-Based Attractions in New York, Germany And More

Beach, historic and physical activity tourism -- everything sounds new and exciting when travel is involved. But when you think of unique experiences it can be limited to things one can do in nightclubs or in the beaches. Those who truly want a unique travel experience should opt for "trash tourism" and some of them are in America and Europe!

Sanctuaries of Difunta Correa, Argentina. In the city of Caucete in Argentina lies a statue of a woman with a child feeding on her bosom wrapped with a rosary. According to Atlas Obscura, This woman is known as the "Breast Milk Saint" -- often given tribute with empty, discarded water bottles. Named the "Sanctuaries of Difunta Correa", Correa was a mother who died from dehydration likely due to breastfeeding her child but not having enough nutrients.

Mount Trashmore, Virginia. In Virginia Beach is a mountain that is poetic enough to earn the name "Trashmore." Indeed, the greens and lovely flowers springing from the fertilized, rubber-crusted ground is the wrapping of a foul and sinister landfill of an assortment of trash from Virginia. But it is beautiful -- despite its disturbing nature.

Dead Horse Bay, New York. Just outside Brooklyn is a trash full beach. Except the trash are not baby diapers or discarded milk cartons. Dead Horse bay features an amazing plethora of assorted vintage bottles -- with some of them containing old-timey moonshine.

Nitt Witt Ridge, California. It is not meant to be derogatory, but the name itself sticks with the Californian garbage tourist spot. According to Business Insider, in Cambria, a garbage man's hobby and creativity using the items he collects on a daily basis had him build the ridge mansion from literal scratch. Does he live in it? Maybe.

Slab for the Ruhr, Germany. The slab is a form of protest art against Germany's enthusiastic mining activities in the 90s. Essen has become a landfill of mining trash that it created a 50-meter hill rivaling Virginia's Mount Trashmore. In Protest, artist Richard Serra made a monolith 14-foot tall above the trash and waste hill, a reminder of Germany's mining wastefulness forever echoed as the monolith stands.