The weirdest Pokéstops in Pokémon Go

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Pokémon Go's check-in locations, Pokéstops, are meant to be places of local interest. Churches, museums, landmarks. Often, however they are... not so much.
To build an app with data for the entire planet, developer Niantic understandably had to crowdsource its information. The studio's previous augmented reality game Ingress is the basis of this player input data - and it shows.
Ingress was not specifically designed for kids, nor was it designed for the numbers of people Pokémon Go has attracted. This was highlighted last week when several institutions complained of players swarming places in which they probably shouldn't be catching Pokémon - such as the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC.
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