I went there too, circa 1974. I didn’t realize it had closed, but then again, I’m not much for country music. It was just a day trip when I was stationed at NATTC Millington.
I see where South of the Border is for sale - not sure if that counts here or not. And, really, I was only there once - we stopped for gas and bought a couple of kitschy gifts.
Does the Kowloon Walled City count as a tourist attraction?
The Sutro Baths and Museum in SF. I was a small child in the 50s-60s and we lived near Walnut Creek. A trip to the museum was a big thing. There was a tram and everything. It was the first time I ever saw a model train set where the train went into a short tunnel and took a long time to come out. (The train went down underneath when it went into the tunnel and then circled around to come back up out of the other end of the tunnel…for those people who have never seen one or figured it out.) It was destroyed by a fire about three years after we moved away.
Mulhouse: Cool train. Where does it go?
Bart: Beats me, but it won’t be back for 3 hours and 40 minutes. Once it had snow on it.
You know, I thought you were going for a pun given the WTC observation tower was very high indeed.
So Long Branch, NJ had an amusement pier which was locally famous for a bit when the Haunted Mansion opened. A very good arcade also. It burnt down in 1987 while I was away in the Navy.
I had spent a fair amount of time there as a kid and teen.
Similarly Asbury Park had a very famous Boardwalk with a great old carousel and many other rides. Excellent funhouse. Long gone now.
Tillie lasted a lot longer though.
Yeah, kids are very jaded these days. When I showed my kids the Movie Jurassic Park when they were around that age, their reaction was “ugh, the CGI is so bad, this movie is unwatchable, dad”. I was well into adulthood when the movie came out, and I thought at the time it was an amazing, towering acheivement in what had been done with early CGI and movie magic to realistically bring dinosaurs back to life (fortunately, just fictionally). When I had been their age, I grew up on Ray Harryhausen animation, and thought it was awesome.
I’ve noticed at least nine other times where What_Exit made an unintentional pun and didn’t realize it*. You’d think those puns would jump out at him him by now on a reread of his posts, but no pun in ten did.
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* not true, just said to set up a bad pun joke. Please forgive me, W_E 
I always meant to get around to dining at that restaurant on top of the North Tower…
Once I got to visit the spire on top of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral… they seem to have essentially re-built it, though.
We were a couple nights in Las Vegas last November to see Ringo Starr at the Venetian and it was shocking, remembering the Strip from the mid-sixties – taken there as a teenager – and as late as the early 90s. It used to be a place where a middle-class, or even lower-middle class gambler could go and be treated like a visiting prince. Now it’s all catering to the high-rollers. Even the loss-leader buffets are gone. I said on another board, they’ve stopped selling a bunch of apples for a nickel and are aiming to sell one $5 apple.
We stayed at Circus Circus because it was the cheapest and it is definitely down at the heels. The circus acts under the hard top big tent are long gone and everything is visibly worn. I’ve read the owner is trying to sell it so it’ll likely be torn down for something else in the next few years. We didn’t go downtown so I don’t know how Fremont Street is faring.
Six Flags America. Mostly went there when it was still Adventure World in the 90s. Six Flags America proper I only went a couple of times.
Another long gone amusement park – as a kid I remember going a couple of times to Chain of Rocks Park in north St. Louis County, which was situated on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River near the old Chain of Rocks Bridge. I think it closed down sometime in the late 70s.
Frontier Village in San Jose. Visited as a kid, worked there one summer.
I went to the World Trade Center. I also went to the Automat in NYC when I was a kid.
I went to several children’s attractions in upstate NY when I was growing up that have since closed; Frontier Town, Land of Make Believe, Gaslight Village, and Mystery Park.
I went to the Midtown Plaza in Rochester. It was a shopping mall but it was also a local tourist attraction.
I saw the orcas at Sea World and ridden an elephant at an animal park.
I’ve been to three world’s fairs, in New York, Montreal, and Knoxville, and they of course are all closed now. But I don’t know if they count because they were intended to be temporary.
The Automats were very cool, but were they touristy?
I miss them and really enjoyed the documentary that Mel Brook’s granddaughter did about them.
I think they were like the World Trade Center. Locals just regarded them as a place of business. But out of towners went to them as tourists.
Land of Make Believe is in Hope, NJ and it’s still open (why, I can’t figure, but it’s probably got something to do with the water park they added several decades back).
Wild West City in Netcong, NJ is also inexplicably still in business.
This was the Land of Make Believe in Upper Jay, NY, which closed in 1979.
Ah I see. I had never heard of that one. It sounds similar to Fairy Tale Forest in Oak Ridge NJ which my parents took me to as a kid. Mariah Carey shot parts of the “All I Want for Christmas” video there. When I lived in Oak Ridge in the early 2000s it closed and variously was used as a storage facility and several failed restaurants until it reopened a couple of years ago. I took my daughter there when it was a BBQ restaurant, but by the time the family reopened it as a park she was already in college.
There was one that I went to near the Adirondacks whose name I don’t remember. As a teenager I wasn’t interested in the fairyland themed stuff especially since the other part of the park had carnival style rides that didn’t have lines.
Either the park itself or just the attractions was bought by Six Flags for Great Escape. I’ve been there and I recognized the fairy stuff from the previous park, and this time as an adult I was interested in leisurely walking through it, especially since the lines for the rides were longer.
But I didn’t recognize the setup of the park. So that’s why I’m not sure if they just moved the gear to Six Flags or if my memory was faulty or if they left it in the same park but rearranged it.