20 funny signs from around the world

Community Highlights Photography 20 funny signs from around the world

A great theme of travel photography is the capturing of weird and wacky signs. We've had some classic examples uploaded to Travellerspoint over the years and so I decided to compile 20 of my favourites, in no particular order.

Rain not permitted
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Taken by Gelli in Xi'an, China

Please go south for 80 miles. Just on your left.
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Taken by Gelli in Beijing, China

Wank
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Taken by Nikio in Germany

The child forbids playing here, take care dangerously
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Taken by dakiar in Ya'an, China

Do not feed or play with the alligators
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Taken by markxrose in Florida, USA

Do not gossip. Let him drive.
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Taken by daveh in India

Chinese Paper Cut
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Taken by towangle in China

Dyslexic Tiefs, Beware of God
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Taken by stevedana in the Bahamas

Tourists! Don't Follow Your Guides!
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Taken by wilmar in Budapest, Hungary

Where to Park?
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Taken by erodrigo in Mongolia

NOTICE. Thank you for noticing this notice
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Taken by roblist in Australia

CLOSE 25:00
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Taken by Gelli in Japan

Information Centre
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Taken by myself in Canada

Stairs for Up
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Taken by Gelli in Hakodate, Japan

Beware! of shaven head child pickpocket
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Taken by Gelli in Thailand

No Snails
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Taken by Gelli in Beograd, Serbia

No Machine Guns
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Taken by Gelli in Skopje, Macedonia

Toilet instructions
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Taken by tommydavis in Guatemala

Dangerous not to swim
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Taken by tommydavis, Mexico

Hope you enjoyed them as much as I did! :) Many more great travel photos can be found in our Travel Photography galleries, now with well over 2 million photos!

By Peter

Posted Thu, Aug 02, 2007