Oh, the places you shouldn't go!

In ''Taken 2,'' relatives of the bad guys defeated by Liam Neeson's CIA agent in the first movie kidnap his family in Istanbul. Is nowhere safe for vacations? Based on this year's movies, we put together this advisory of places to avoid. Bon non-voyage!

Alaska
The Grey

Forget the aurora borealis, unless you can enjoy it while battling rabid wolves with your cold, bare hands.

Hawaii
Battleship

Aliens are aiming their weapons straight at Honolulu. Catch a rad wave elsewhere, dude.

Mexico
Savages

Hard to enjoy a frosty Corona when you’re being hunted by a vicious drug cartel run by Salma Hayek.

Pennsylvania
House at the End of the Street

That’s right. You can’t even trust your neighbors anymore.

New York City
The Avengers

A Norse god with an inferiority complex and an alien army are laying siege to the Big Apple.

Italy
The Devil Inside

The Sistine Chapel will have to wait. Possessions of the body-contorting variety are rampant.

Bulgaria
The Expendables 2

Wander over here and Jean-Claude Van Damme might enslave you in his uranium-mining ring.

Chernobyl
Chernobyl Diaries

Hungry grizzly bears and post-nuclear-meltdown mutant cannibals don’t make for great postcards.

Outer space and Mars
John Carter, Prometheus

Nasty aliens. Plus, in space, no one can hear you scream.

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