Places I Don't Want to Visit
Well, Waco, Texas used to top this list. I lived there for ten months of my life that I'll never get back. Though John Cr@ven once said, "If you have one year to live, spend it in Waco -- because every day is like a @#$ing eternity."

Okay, so we've established Waco isn't an ideal tourist destination. But I think Nuevo Laredo, Mexico is worse. There have been so many kidnappings and murders by prominent drug cartels there that locals actually have Spanish words for:
-- Someone who's been tortured to death and had his head wrapped in duct tape
-- A cadaver wrapped in a blanket and dumped
-- A body left to rot in the trunk of a car

I learned from experience that Waco tops mid-sized cities in property theft crime, but at least I survived The Great Burglary of 2004 with my head intact.