State by state, the most boring attractions in the United States

Gaming site Solitaired has listed the most boring tourist attraction in every US state. According to Solitaired: “we ranked the attractions by the frequency with which tourists mentioned boredom-related keywords, comparing the mentions to the total reviews for each spot. In March 2024, we analyzed 66.7 million Google reviews of 3,290 popular tourist attractions worldwide, spanning 384 cities across 71 countries. We focused our analysis on 11 keyword mentions indicative of a bored tourist. Those keywords were “boring,” “bored,” “bore,” “boredom,” “tiresome,” “dull,” “drab,” “lacklustre,” “lifeless,” “mediocre,” and “tedious.” To ensure we focused on keywords used in a negative context (in other words, to avoid “This place is great if you are bored!” or “You will never be bored here!”), we used natural language processing (NLP) and keyword-in-context (KWIC) analysis. We began with a list of 1.4bn reviews for 5,026 tourist attractions before narrowing to our final 3,290. We removed attractions with less than 2,000 total reviews and removed reviews containing positive uses of our keywords. We calculated a boredom frequency for each attraction by stacking the number of bored reviews against the review total. The attractions with the highest boredom frequencies are the most boring. At the country and US state levels, we used a logarithmic scaling formula with linear weighting combining boredom frequency with the number of boring attractions to arrive at our rankings. Even if you are a seasoned traveller, read on to ensure you have the knowledge you need to avoid booking a certifiably dull vacation.”