Instagram data reveals popular sites
What is the point of traveling the world if you can't share it — or boast about it — with desk-bound friends back home?
Instagram, the popular photo-sharing platform, has become a fan favorite among travelers, who often post wanderlust-inducing photos from their worldly adventures to remind loved ones that they're on vacation — and very #happy about it.
The app recently released its year-in-review data — which included, among other stats, the most photographed cities, locations and museums (based on geotagged data for 2017).
The Instagram data team also highlighted the top hashtags and filters used by its global community of 800 million users during the past year.
The Big Apple and Disneyland were the most photographed city and location, respectively; the Louvre Museum in Paris was the most Instagrammed museum worldwide.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York took first place among U.S. museums, and Washington's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden cracked the top 10 — at No. 8 — for the first time, probably because of Yayoi Kusama's wildly popular and photo-friendly mirrored infinity rooms.
Nearly 160,000 people experienced the museum's record-breaking Kusama exhibition and posted about 34,000 snapshots from it on their Instagram accounts, according to the museum.
Here are a some of the site's top lists for 2017:
Most-Instagrammed cities
1. New York 2. Moscow 3. London 4. Sao Paulo, Brazil 5. Paris 6. Los Angeles 7. St. Petersburg, Russia 8. Jakarta, Indonesia 9. Istanbul 10. Barcelona, Spain
Most-Instagrammed locations
1. Disneyland, Anaheim, California 2. Times Square, New York 3. Central Park, New York 4. Eiffel Tower, Paris 5. Tokyo Disneyland 6. Disney's Magic Kingdom, Orlando 7. Louvre Museum, Paris 8. Brooklyn Bridge, New York 9. Disney California Adventure Park, Anaheim, California 10. Las Vegas Strip
Most-Instagrammed museums (global)
1. Louvre Museum, Paris 2. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 3. Museum of Modern Art, New York 4. Los Angeles County Museum of Art 5. British Museum, London 6. American Museum of Natural History, New York 7. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 8. Victoria and Albert Museum, London 9. Natural History Museum, London 10. Museum of Ice Cream, Los Angeles
Most-Instagrammed museums (U.S.)
1. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2. Museum of Modern Art, New York 3. Los Angeles County Museum of Art 4. American Museum of Natural History, New York 5. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 6. Museum of Ice Cream, Los Angeles 7. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 8. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. 9. National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New York 10. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Top hashtags
1. #Love 2. #Fashion 3. #PhotoOfTheDay 4. #Photography 5. #Art 6. #Beautiful 7. #Travel 8. #Happy 9. #Nature 10. #PicOfTheDay