10 places

• Oymyakon, Russia: In this Siberian village on record as the coldest town on Earth, the temperature must drop to -62 degrees Fahrenheit before schools close.
• Paula Deen Cruise to the Caribbean: You usually put on a few pounds while on vacation…and a few more if that vacation is the neverending buffet of a cruise ship. Add Paula Deen’s butter-filled recipes into the mix, and you’ll soon be “too ashamed to waddle around the lido deck in your bikini.”
• Pakistan: “Violent extremists, Al-Qaida, and Taliban elements do not a vacation make. But, you probably knew that already.”

• Scranton, Pa.: Not that you’d want to go there, but if for some reason you’re forced—avoid The OfficeFan Tour, busing around the city later this year.
• Rotorua, New Zealand: Though it is a fairly popular destination, it is also the self-proclaimed “most noxious city on the planet” thanks to an abundance of sulfur fumes.
• Chernobyl, Ukraine: “Ultimately, it’s the fact that the tour begins and ends with radioactivity testing for all participants that puts it on the ‘no-go’ list.”
• Mexico: The drug war. Enough said.
• Bakersfield, Calif.: It's everything you don’t picture when you think of California...and, well, it also has the country’s worst level of fine-particle pollution.
• Orlando, Fla.: There was already a wealth of reasons not to visit this tourist trap, but this spring brings one more: Universal’s “Wizarding World of Harry Potter” theme park.
• New York: It’s a great city, but avoid it in May, when the premiere of Sex and the City 2 promises “a rash of cheesy publicity campaigns and a sudden influx of wannabe Carries, Charlottes, Mirandas, and Samanthas (especially Samanthas). It ain’t gonna be pretty.”