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The Onion Unveils Terribly Useless Travel Guide

December 5, 2007 at 4:35 PM | 0 Comments

Do you ever get tired of real hard-hitting news, honest travel memoirs and deep think pieces on destinations? Yeah, us too. Which is why The Onion's new Atlas of the Planet Earth Google Map mashup is totally our new best friend.

The guide's hilarity is all sourced from satire publisher's newish book, Our Dumb World. This week's featured country is Egypt, which, according to The Onion anyway, is:

Located in the Smithsonian, the Louvre, the National Gallery in London and countless other museums throughout the Western world...behind thick glass displays in climate-controlled rooms.

Not from Egypt? With a new country each week, you'll be able to find a comically offensive description of your own nation soon. Here's hoping Turkey doesn't find out about this!

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· Our Dumb World: Atlas of the Planet Earth [Official Site]
· Travel Websites coverage [Jaunted]