Top Tourist Destinations on Social Media

What tourist destinations are the most photographed and talked about on social media? This list could double as a travel bucket list.

Paris’s Eiffel Tower—which recently celebrated its 125th birthday—topped the list with 977,287 images uploaded to Facebook owned Instagram using its names as a hashtag, followed by New York City’s Times Square. But not all of the attractions that made the list were quite as predictable.

Scroll below to find out what other unforgettable destinations around the world have had hundreds of thousands of photos uploaded to the photo-sharing app.

1.  Eiffel Tower (977,287)

Eiffel Tower

Photo by omar_dahrawy

2.  Times Square (773569)

3.  Big Ben (689,375)

4.  Maldives (622,504)

Maldives

Photo by @nickkkk01

5.  The London Eye (496,213)

6.  Notre Dame (410,868)

7.  Harrods (395,157)

8.  Empire State Building (388,306)

9.  Grand Canyon (370,919)

Grand Canyon

Photo by @seananth0n

10. Golden Gate Bridge (367,282)

11. Hyde Park (353,485)

12. Brooklyn Bridge (308,613)

13. Statue of Liberty (303,960)

14. Southbank (218,841)

15. Tower Bridge (205,555)

Tower Bridge

Photo by @amiivan

16. Colosseum (157,052)

17. Alhambra (139,654)

18. Sagrada Familia (128,062)

19. Bondi Beach (113,716)

20. Petra (108,179)

Petra

Photo by @portodomundo