Here’s the 10 tourist traps you should avoid on your next trip in France. They’re the places that are so expensive, so cheesy or so crowded it feels like all of the 84 million tourists who visit the country each year are there at the same time. You may not agree with the entries on this list, so let us know what places would make your top ten.

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