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Favorite Historical Places You’ve Visited
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Alamo is underwhelming, but I crouched where Steve McQueen crouched.Doog_de_Jour said:
@Pitchfork51, true?El_K said:I have had my photo taken behind the grassy knoll at Dealey Plaza in Dallas and done the book depository tour
I have been to the Alamo as well. It is about the size of a Taco Bell. I asked if I could see the basement as well
Alamo is definitely on my list...and yes, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure had a big part in that. -
The Plains of Abraham
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You know things are looking up when the object of yourDoog_de_Jour said:I just got done reading “Son of the Morning Star”, a book about Custer and Little Bighorn and it made me reminisce about visiting the battlefield when I was little.
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Not to steal @TopicalChica’s thunder here, but what are some of your favorite places of historical interest you’ve visited?stalkingdesire finds herself thinking about the site of your people's greatest triumph over the white devils. VICTORY! -
I would have to say Amsterdam's Red Light District is my favorite historical place.
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Custer's Battlefield is definitely cool
Independence Hall is chinteresting. The Liberty Bell across the street is worth seeing.
Been to some Mayan Chindian Ruins in Belize, that shit was very cool.
Been to Harry Truman's birthplace. Nothing special.
Graceland is lame af. Graceland Too (RIP) >>>>>>>>>
As far as historical places in Memphis are concerned the Lorraine Motel is way more chinteresting to me (site of the MLKJ assassination, now the national civil rights museum, definitely worth a visit). Sun Studios is also very much worth a stop.
Most importantly my wife (?) and I spent our wedding night in a hotel in Intercourse, Pennsylvania. History was definitely made. -
So, aside from brothels and such, I gave this question some thought. Here are those thoughts, in no particular order.
Arlington National Cemetery and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial are the most sobering.
The Grand Canyon National Park and Glacier National Park are the most epic.
The Tropicana and Flamingo Casinos are the most gangster.
The Acropolis in Athens and The Pyramids at Giza are the most historic.
Saint Peters Basilica is the most inspiring. (I bet the Hagia Sophia gives it a run but I have never been there)
Waterloo is the best battlefield. (I have never been to Normandy)
The Horse You Came In On Saloon is the best place to get drunk with Edgar Allan Poe's ghost.
Anywhere in Thailand is the best place to get AIDS.
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National Parks are my wheelhouse.Swaye said:So, aside from brothels and such, I gave this question some thought. Here are those thoughts, in no particular order.
Arlington National Cemetery and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial are the most sobering.
The Grand Canyon National Park and Glacier National Park are the most epic.
The Tropicana and Flamingo Casinos are the most gangster.
The Acropolis in Athens and The Pyramids at Giza are the most historic.
Saint Peters Basilica is the most inspiring. (I bet the Hagia Sophia gives it a run but I have never been there)
Waterloo is the best battlefield. (I have never been to Normandy)
The Horse You Came In On Saloon is the best place to get drunk with Edgar Allan Poe's ghost.
Anywhere in Thailand is the best place to get AIDS.
Grand Canyon was cool but I found it kinda sorta ever so mildly disappointing? Maybe I've just seen it too many times in pics/vids. Definitely amazing but I guess I expected a tiny bit more somehow?
Glacier is badass. Going to the Sun Highway is an adventure everyone needs to experience at some point.
Yellowstone stands alone, nothing like it. Grand Tetons (or Tittytons, as my little brother and I called it as kids) are the shit.
Not a NP but coming northeast bound out of Yellowstone there's a road called Beartooth Highway that is some spectacular mountain scenery and scary af switchbacks.
Olympic, Rainier are obviously legendary but I don't need to tell this bored about them. North Cascades is massively underrated though.
Rocky Mountain is very worth it. Great Smoky Mountains is really cool but you have to set aside your west coast mountain elitism to be able to appreciate it.
Arches is one of my favorites, really unique landscapes. It's the only one of the Utah parks I've been to yet though, I definitely need to see the rest.
Badlands is eery. Wind Cave is fun if you have time for a tour.
I've barely been to the edges of Theodore Roosevelt, Petrified Forest, Mesa Verde and Everglades. Really want to do the full Everglades sometime.
Gateway Arch is a NP now which is ridiculous but it's still cool to visit.
Never been to any of the California or Alaska NPs which is a blackeye for me, IMO. -
National Parks are my wheelhouse.
Grand Canyon was cool but I found it kinda sorta ever so mildly disappointing? Maybe I've just seen it too many times in pics/vids. Definitely amazing but I guess I expected a tiny bit more somehow?
Glacier is badass. Going to the Sun Highway is an adventure everyone needs to experience at some point.
Yellowstone stands alone, nothing like it. Grand Tetons (or Tittytons, as my little brother and I called it as kids) are the shit.
Not a NP but coming northeast bound out of Yellowstone there's a road called Beartooth Highway that is some spectacular mountain scenery and scary af switchbacks.
Olympic, Rainier are obviously legendary but I don't need to tell this bored about them. North Cascades is massively underrated though.
Rocky Mountain is very worth it. Great Smoky Mountains is really cool but you have to set aside your west coast mountain elitism to be able to appreciate it.
Arches is one of my favorites, really unique landscapes. It's the only one of the Utah parks I've been to yet though, I definitely need to see the rest.
Badlands is eery. Wind Cave is fun if you have time for a tour.
I've barely been to the edges of Theodore Roosevelt, Petrified Forest, Mesa Verde and Everglades. Really want to do the full Everglades sometime.
Gateway Arch is a NP now which is ridiculous but it's still cool to visit.
Never been to any of the California or Alaska NPs which is a blackeye for me, IMO.
US nature stuff
Sequoia, John Muir(also see Redwoods), & Yosemite are world beaters. The Olympics can come too. Yellowstone I love but there's less wow factor imo. Maybe that's because my family owns lands in the Wyoming Rockies and I grew up running around there.
I reserve my judgment of the Grand Canyon as I've only ever gotten to visit the lookouts. Still waiting on hitting the lotto for a permit to white water raft it. I have rafted the Snake River in Hell's Canyon which is technically bigger than the Grand Canyon. One of my favorite rafting rivers of all tim and it's amazing to be able to just go and do it without any restrictions.
Arches and the surrounding areas are tits if you are a JEEP fanboy. Hint hint @Swaye
The petrified forest was kind of meh. The painted desert was cool to drive through once. Meteor Crater was actually probably the most impactful.
The Black Rock Dessert anytim there isn't burning man is fucking amazing. Total fucking moonscape and nothing but the sound of the wind and dust blowing. You can drive 100+ on the open playa for hours and not hit a god damn thing. Surreal.
Joshua tree also seems like it would be a good place to do a lot of peyote.
You pretty much can't throw a rock and hit something amazing and beautiful in Hawaii. Too many people spend all of their tim at the Beaches. The volcanoes, waterfalls, and forests aren't appreciated enough.
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If you drive through Yosemite to Sequoia you go over a 10000 foot pass
395 in California is a beautiful drive
95 in Oregon
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Arkansas through the Royal Gorge and the 5s on the Ocoee are the best rivers I’ve rafted. Did the Snoqualmie (west of the falls) in September once with top dad and big brother when it was at its lowest and that was completely miserable. We hit every rock in the damn river bed.
Really need to raft West Virginia. Grand Canyon from the river would be a dream come true.
