Not just country, this works on a city level. Sometimes you need to go on a vacation in your own city.

I moved in my current city more than 15 years ago and sometimes I still visit places I've never been. Mostly when I have friends or family over, but also when I go kayaking around the archipelago.

Not being originally from the city I live in gives me some of the outsider's perspective, but eventually when we live in a place for a while, we fall into a routine and don't explore as much.

Also, I find it funny when tourists are taking pictures of famous places and buildings around, and I walk in front carrying my groceries. Not because I want to ruin their pictures; I just live here.

They might mean country as in like nation state.

good photographers have an eye for shooting "mundane" things in an interesting way too
(def not me tho)

That's what I assumed it means here, I don't even see what else it could mean in the context of the comic. I wanted to say that this also works on a city level. Tourists visit very different places in cities than the people who live in those cities, or countries or continents.

Oh yes. I agree. I initially read your comment as if OP was referring to “the country” as in outside of cities or in a rural area.
lol

atlas obscura, my friend

i always use it while traveling, but only recently i realized i could use it in my home country, too

what's fun is when I finally went and used it at my hometown and thought "i hang out at those places all the time! what's so cool about my favorite coffee shop? why are those places 'interesting'?" (especially the one that was just this big piece of metal (that only a few of us oldies know the whole story of, and i only know half of it) in the middle of a park) and suddenly i thought about it for a minute and liked the website more.

fuck

There's a small mountain just 200 meters from my home. Tried to go up there once, but realized halfway that you need proper shoes for that. It's in the middle of town, but still unsecured wilderness, so you feel like you're climbing a proper mountain pretty quickly. Basically, the kind of experience that others will drive out into the countryside for.

And the thing is, I do have proper shoes at home. I've been meaning to head back up there and to the top, to get the proper outlook (which has got to be pretty fucking cool, since you can see the whole town even from halfway up).
But yeah, because I could head up there at any point in time, it's always been a matter of "Oh, it's too wet this weekend" or too icy or too hot or any other excuse.
Like, yeah, maybe don't climb a mountain when it's icy, but none of the other reasons would've stopped me, if I was here on vacation...

You can’t just say fuck on the internet!

I know I'm probably on my own about this but...downvoted for censorship.

"But it probably wasn't op who censored it"
Then they shouldn't have reposted it like this.

"It was probably for the algorithm on some other media"
Don't care, either fix it or stop reposting censored content.
We now live in a censored or redacted world, and we really shouldn't keep on enabling it.

I feel the same way.

Did you see what the original Irish names were for the towns too? It's very cool to find those since Boston is bound to be some anglo version.

Edit to add.. I looked it up out of curiosity and it's more funny than expected...

The name "Boston" is most likely to have been an ironic reference to the city of Boston in the United States, applied as a nickname to what was described in 1839 as "a few cabins situated on the property of the Marquis of Thomond".[2] The official Irish-language name recorded in the Placenames Database of Ireland is Boston.[1] The electoral division containing the village is also named Boston in both English and Irish,[4] although a 1929 Act of the Oireachtas gives the Irish name Druim na Doimhne "ridge of the abyss"

From Wikipedia