Are you tired of the usual tourist attractions where you see what the ordinary traveler see? How about visiting the most unhygienic attractions for a change? Here is a list of the ‘germiest’ tourist attractions. Get ready. Call your travel agent and book the first flight to these filthy places.

1. The Blarney Stone (Cork, Ireland)

Kissing the stone will endow the worshipper with the gift of gab (great eloquence or skill at flattery). This tone was set into a tower in 1446. Imagine how many lips have kissed the stone. Go ahead. Kiss it.

2. Gum Wall (Seattle, USA)

True to its name, the wall is made of brick, which is now covered by, what else? Chewing gum. People have been sticking their gum to this wall. Twice, the wall was cleaned only to stick them again. So, the officials made it a tourist attraction, if you please. Imagine the dried saliva and germs in each gum. Good luck!

3. Oscar Wilde‘s Tomb (Paris, France)

Don’t be surprised to see lipstick marks on the tomb. It’s a tradition to kiss the tomb of the Irish author and playwright. Pray that you see a spot with no lipstick yet.

4. The Piazza (Venice, Italy)

Pigeons, a.k.a. flying rats, rule the roost in Venice’s legendary town square.

5. Grauman’s Chinese Theater (Hollywood, USA)

Among the theater’s most distinctive features are the concrete blocks set in the forecourt, which bear the signatures, footprints, and handprints of popular motion picture personalities from the 1920s to the present day. Would you get on your knees and stick your fingers into the cracks and crannies on any random sidewalk in your hometown?

6. Karni Mata Rat Temple (Deshnok, India)

Known by many as the 8th wonder of the world, Karni Mata is definitely one of the most unusual places on the face of the earth. As impossible as it may seem at this Hindu temple, humans live in perfect harmony with thousands of rats completely unafraid of humans. These rats are treated like hairy little princes. Remember, you have to remove your shoes when you go inside the temple.

7. Friendly Monkey Valley (Everland Amusement Park, South Korea)

The first place ever for 12 kinds of apes and 145 monkeys. Enjoy your time there.

8. Glastonbury Festival (Somerset, England)

The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly known as Glastonbury or Glasto, is the largest green field open-air music and performing arts festival in the world. The festival is best known for its contemporary music, but also features dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and many other arts. Every summer, hundreds of thousands of hygiene-challenged music fans converge for several days of dancing, partying, and (more often than not) acres and acres of filth.

9. Any Children’s Ball Pit

Don’t give too much thought to what’s at the bottom of that pile of colorful plastic balls. And definitely do not dwell on how often those gum-popping teenage employees clean it out.

10. Disaster Emeritus: CBGB’s Bathroom

While the stage at the legendary music venue on Manhattan’s Bowery featured acts like Blondie, Talking Heads, Television, the Ramones, Youth of Today, Bad Brains–need we go on?–the club’s dank, graffitied, sticky-floored bathroom welcomed generations of anonymous punks (most of whom had awful aim). CBGB closed its doors in 2006, but legend has it the bathroom walked away of its own accord.

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