8 London Tourist Attractions That Make Absolutely No Sense

2. The Clink Prison Museum

People are weird, which means that people like wandering around dank places where other people once lived in hellish conditions and had a generally bad time in the past. We've sort of managed to romanticise anything that falls under this category which relates to "old London" - you know, like Jack the Ripper. So there's the London Dungeon, which is all right, and then there's the Clink Prison Museum, which is just a super bizarre "attraction." The site of the Clink Prison Museum marks the location of the oldest prison in the city, so there's that. But the people who decided to turn this into a place you can pay to walk around have done so in the most tacky, inauthentic way possible, rendering it as a sort of overpriced funhouse (without any of the fun). Most of the things in here look like props, and it's possible to see the whole thing in about 10 minutes if walking at "normal" speed. Simply, it just doesn't deserve to be branded a museum. There's too much "reading stuff on the wall" to be done (who wants to do that?), whilst stepping out of its dingy corridors and into the daylight in the aftermath - quite honestly - just makes you feel dead inside. Like you've been... conned, almost?