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geneusutwerk  ·  4394 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are the most photographed places on Earth?

So. Some researchers at Cornell actually answered this, well sort of.

They took 35 million photographs from Flickr and then analyzed the geo data as well as tags to see where people were taking pictures. They also made some awesome maps like this world heat map

In the end the top locations according to their research(PDF) were:

1. Eiffel Tower 2. Trafalgar Square 3. Tate Modern 4. Big Ben 5. Notre Dame 6. London Eye 7. Empire State Building

Which is in my opinion an oddly London-centric list.