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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,025
    BearsWiin said:

    BearsWiin said:

    I chiseled a gloryhole in the Berlin Wall, does that count?

    Yes
    Gloryhole too high


    Not for The Throbber or @YellowSnow
  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    BearsWiin said:

    BearsWiin said:

    I chiseled a hole in the Berlin Wall, does that count?

    bedridden postpartum Grandma but Red Cross nurses fought them off

    Pics?
  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,070

    BearsWiin said:

    Standing inside the gas chamber at Dachau on a freezing day. You don't understand humanity until you do this. Not good... in order to really understand life, though, you have to do this! I'm not anti-semitic. It is just that it's the only way to get the man-inhumanity-to-man issue.

    The mind boggling thing is that Dachau paled in comparison to the other German death factories further to the East.
    Mauthausen is pretty sobering, too
    Dachau and Mauthausen are notable for being amongst the first camps and the places where the Germans got their reads down. Something like 31,000 were killed and Dachau and 120,000 to 300,000 at Mauthausen. These figures by themselves are horrific. But the final solution really got going at Auschwitz (1,000,000 killed) and Treblinka (900,000 killed).
    Where did you get these numbers? Personally, I would be suspicious since the authorities disclaim the chamber at Dachau was even used. It look used, big time. Anyway, I leave the arguments to the historians.
    Dachau was the first concentration camp, and IIRC it was operational through the 1930's so they had many years pre-Final Solution to kill gypsies, artists, Jews, gays, etc. there. Chambers were used later, when it was deemed cost-ineffective to shoot that many people. I don't recall seeing chambers at Dachau, but I remember the crematoria

    Not specifically about Dachau, but Tim Snyder's Bloodlands gives a good recounting of the Nazis' efforts to figure out industrial-scale killing on the Eastern Front. We think of gas chambers and huge concentration camps, but a couple million people were just shot and buried in mass graves dug near their villages.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,216 Founders Club
    BearsWiin said:

    BearsWiin said:

    Standing inside the gas chamber at Dachau on a freezing day. You don't understand humanity until you do this. Not good... in order to really understand life, though, you have to do this! I'm not anti-semitic. It is just that it's the only way to get the man-inhumanity-to-man issue.

    The mind boggling thing is that Dachau paled in comparison to the other German death factories further to the East.
    Mauthausen is pretty sobering, too
    Dachau and Mauthausen are notable for being amongst the first camps and the places where the Germans got their reads down. Something like 31,000 were killed and Dachau and 120,000 to 300,000 at Mauthausen. These figures by themselves are horrific. But the final solution really got going at Auschwitz (1,000,000 killed) and Treblinka (900,000 killed).
    Where did you get these numbers? Personally, I would be suspicious since the authorities disclaim the chamber at Dachau was even used. It look used, big time. Anyway, I leave the arguments to the historians.
    Dachau was the first concentration camp, and IIRC it was operational through the 1930's so they had many years pre-Final Solution to kill gypsies, artists, Jews, gays, etc. there. Chambers were used later, when it was deemed cost-ineffective to shoot that many people. I don't recall seeing chambers at Dachau, but I remember the crematoria

    Not specifically about Dachau, but Tim Snyder's Bloodlands gives a good recounting of the Nazis' efforts to figure out industrial-scale killing on the Eastern Front. We think of gas chambers and huge concentration camps, but a couple million people were just shot and buried in mass graves dug near their villages.
    Bloodlans was a great read. Picked that up about 6 years ago.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,216 Founders Club

    BearsWiin said:

    Standing inside the gas chamber at Dachau on a freezing day. You don't understand humanity until you do this. Not good... in order to really understand life, though, you have to do this! I'm not anti-semitic. It is just that it's the only way to get the man-inhumanity-to-man issue.

    The mind boggling thing is that Dachau paled in comparison to the other German death factories further to the East.
    Mauthausen is pretty sobering, too
    Dachau and Mauthausen are notable for being amongst the first camps and the places where the Germans got their reads down. Something like 31,000 were killed and Dachau and 120,000 to 300,000 at Mauthausen. These figures by themselves are horrific. But the final solution really got going at Auschwitz (1,000,000 killed) and Treblinka (900,000 killed).
    Where did you get these numbers? Personally, I would be suspicious since the authorities disclaim the chamber at Dachau was even used. It look used, big time. Anyway, I leave the arguments to the historians.
    The definitive book on the subject.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodlands
  • Ice_Holmvik
    Ice_Holmvik Member Posts: 2,912
    LebamDawg said:

    the memorable ones:

    • Arlington National Cemetery and the tomb of the Unknown Soldier changing of the guard. (Mrs. Lebam called me a wuss for crying)
    • Punchbowl and USS Arizona in Hawaii
    • Fort McHenry + the National Museum with the Flag
    • Mt. Rushmore
    • Gettysburg and I have been to numerous Civil War reenactments
    • Monticello - Jefferson be my favorite
  • ApostleofGrief
    ApostleofGrief Member Posts: 3,904
    BearsWiin said:

    BearsWiin said:

    Standing inside the gas chamber at Dachau on a freezing day. You don't understand humanity until you do this. Not good... in order to really understand life, though, you have to do this! I'm not anti-semitic. It is just that it's the only way to get the man-inhumanity-to-man issue.

    The mind boggling thing is that Dachau paled in comparison to the other German death factories further to the East.
    Mauthausen is pretty sobering, too
    Dachau and Mauthausen are notable for being amongst the first camps and the places where the Germans got their reads down. Something like 31,000 were killed and Dachau and 120,000 to 300,000 at Mauthausen. These figures by themselves are horrific. But the final solution really got going at Auschwitz (1,000,000 killed) and Treblinka (900,000 killed).
    Where did you get these numbers? Personally, I would be suspicious since the authorities disclaim the chamber at Dachau was even used. It look used, big time. Anyway, I leave the arguments to the historians.
    Dachau was the first concentration camp, and IIRC it was operational through the 1930's so they had many years pre-Final Solution to kill gypsies, artists, Jews, gays, etc. there. Chambers were used later, when it was deemed cost-ineffective to shoot that many people. I don't recall seeing chambers at Dachau, but I remember the crematoria

    Not specifically about Dachau, but Tim Snyder's Bloodlands gives a good recounting of the Nazis' efforts to figure out industrial-scale killing on the Eastern Front. We think of gas chambers and huge concentration camps, but a couple million people were just shot and buried in mass graves dug near their villages.
    I remember the part of Dachau which looked like gutters in a field, and the signs indicated that they just mowed down prisoners here. This is dark shit, man!
  • backthepack
    backthepack Member Posts: 19,937
    My favorite is the tower of london.


    That place is dope as fuck.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,216 Founders Club

    My favorite is the tower of london.


    That place is dope as fuck.

    I ate lunch on the outside near the Traitors Gate. Didn’t go inside for the tour.
  • backthepack
    backthepack Member Posts: 19,937

    My favorite is the tower of london.


    That place is dope as fuck.

    I ate lunch on the outside near the Traitors Gate. Didn’t go inside for the tour.
    It’s amazing
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,025

    Pyramids are the shit. Cairo is total shit. But the Pyramids are dope af.

    So you say you like large, hard pointy things, @Dennis_DeYoung ?

  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,216 Founders Club
    whlinder said:

    Most impactful for me without question is Auschwitz. Both Auschwitz 1 and Birkenau. It is really indescribable.

    I've been to Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, all the DC monuments including the Vietnam Wall, the Plaszow concentration camp in Krakow (which is a different type of sadness) and the last remaining piece of the wall of the Warsaw Ghetto but there is nothing that approaches the level of Auschwitz.

    Nairobi National Park in Kenya was pretty impactful from the perspective of how incredible those creatures are in the wild and how we're in the process of destroying their planet and habitat.

    The Great Pyramids of Giza. How the fuck did humans build those things with the technology at the time?

    The Acropolis & Parthenon in Athens.

    The Wieliczka Salt Mine in Krakow is amazing as well.

    The Great Wall of China is pretty amazing but I wish I had more of a chance to explore it.

    Tiannamen Square was interesting from the perspective of the tour "rebranding" the history there.

    Krakow Wawel Castle and old square are awesome.
    Similarly Plaza Mayor in Madrid, along with the Prado.

    I liked the Musee du Orsay in Paris more than the Louvre, but the Louvre is still pretty special.
    The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum is a great museum.

    The Auckland Maritime Museum was a really cool display of the history of ocean travel and navigation.

    I did the other big Paris sites when I was there, Arc, Eiffle Tower, etc, and while they're amazing they don't crack the top 5. Same with London; Buckingham palace and Big Ben are cool but not top 5.

    An amazing museum and I take it for granted for being right down the street is the Udvar-Hazy center near Dulles Airport. The fucking Enola Gay is there! Plus a space shuttle, a Concorde, an SR-71 blackbird and Gemini space capsule.

    Humans didn’t build the pyramids. Aliens did. HTH.

    Agree on Orsay being better than Louvre.

    I really need to see Gettysburg soon. Really want to look down from Little Round Top to see where Chamberlain ordered the bayonet charge and saved the Republic.
  • whlinder
    whlinder Member Posts: 5,266
    Fuck me, I forgot Appamattox and Williamsburg/Jamestown. Clearly not my favorites since they didn’t register sooner (but also recency bias) but they’re kinda important.

    whlinder said:

    Most impactful for me without question is Auschwitz. Both Auschwitz 1 and Birkenau. It is really indescribable.

    I've been to Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, all the DC monuments including the Vietnam Wall, the Plaszow concentration camp in Krakow (which is a different type of sadness) and the last remaining piece of the wall of the Warsaw Ghetto but there is nothing that approaches the level of Auschwitz.

    Nairobi National Park in Kenya was pretty impactful from the perspective of how incredible those creatures are in the wild and how we're in the process of destroying their planet and habitat.

    The Great Pyramids of Giza. How the fuck did humans build those things with the technology at the time?

    The Acropolis & Parthenon in Athens.

    The Wieliczka Salt Mine in Krakow is amazing as well.

    The Great Wall of China is pretty amazing but I wish I had more of a chance to explore it.

    Tiannamen Square was interesting from the perspective of the tour "rebranding" the history there.

    Krakow Wawel Castle and old square are awesome.
    Similarly Plaza Mayor in Madrid, along with the Prado.

    I liked the Musee du Orsay in Paris more than the Louvre, but the Louvre is still pretty special.
    The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum is a great museum.

    The Auckland Maritime Museum was a really cool display of the history of ocean travel and navigation.

    I did the other big Paris sites when I was there, Arc, Eiffle Tower, etc, and while they're amazing they don't crack the top 5. Same with London; Buckingham palace and Big Ben are cool but not top 5.

    An amazing museum and I take it for granted for being right down the street is the Udvar-Hazy center near Dulles Airport. The fucking Enola Gay is there! Plus a space shuttle, a Concorde, an SR-71 blackbird and Gemini space capsule.

    Humans didn’t build the pyramids. Aliens did. HTH.

    Agree on Orsay being better than Louvre.

    I really need to see Gettysburg soon. Really want to look down from Little Round Top to see where Chamberlain ordered the bayonet charge and saved the Republic.
    It’s really bad how numb I am at this point to Gettysburg, Arlington Cemetary and the Vietnam Wall. Drove past Arlington and the Wall every Sunday on the way to church for my entire youth. Drive past Gettysburg 2-5 times per year for the past 15 years to visit in-laws. I guess it’s the same way you get used to seeing Rainier in the distance in Seattle, but it’s still a sight to behold if you’re an east coaster.
  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,070
    whlinder said:

    Fuck me, I forgot Appamattox and Williamsburg/Jamestown. Clearly not my favorites since they didn’t register sooner (but also recency bias) but they’re kinda important.

    whlinder said:

    Most impactful for me without question is Auschwitz. Both Auschwitz 1 and Birkenau. It is really indescribable.

    I've been to Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, all the DC monuments including the Vietnam Wall, the Plaszow concentration camp in Krakow (which is a different type of sadness) and the last remaining piece of the wall of the Warsaw Ghetto but there is nothing that approaches the level of Auschwitz.

    Nairobi National Park in Kenya was pretty impactful from the perspective of how incredible those creatures are in the wild and how we're in the process of destroying their planet and habitat.

    The Great Pyramids of Giza. How the fuck did humans build those things with the technology at the time?

    The Acropolis & Parthenon in Athens.

    The Wieliczka Salt Mine in Krakow is amazing as well.

    The Great Wall of China is pretty amazing but I wish I had more of a chance to explore it.

    Tiannamen Square was interesting from the perspective of the tour "rebranding" the history there.

    Krakow Wawel Castle and old square are awesome.
    Similarly Plaza Mayor in Madrid, along with the Prado.

    I liked the Musee du Orsay in Paris more than the Louvre, but the Louvre is still pretty special.
    The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum is a great museum.

    The Auckland Maritime Museum was a really cool display of the history of ocean travel and navigation.

    I did the other big Paris sites when I was there, Arc, Eiffle Tower, etc, and while they're amazing they don't crack the top 5. Same with London; Buckingham palace and Big Ben are cool but not top 5.

    An amazing museum and I take it for granted for being right down the street is the Udvar-Hazy center near Dulles Airport. The fucking Enola Gay is there! Plus a space shuttle, a Concorde, an SR-71 blackbird and Gemini space capsule.

    Humans didn’t build the pyramids. Aliens did. HTH.

    Agree on Orsay being better than Louvre.

    I really need to see Gettysburg soon. Really want to look down from Little Round Top to see where Chamberlain ordered the bayonet charge and saved the Republic.
    It’s really bad how numb I am at this point to Gettysburg, Arlington Cemetary and the Vietnam Wall. Drove past Arlington and the Wall every Sunday on the way to church for my entire youth. Drive past Gettysburg 2-5 times per year for the past 15 years to visit in-laws. I guess it’s the same way you get used to seeing Rainier in the distance in Seattle, but it’s still a sight to behold if you’re an east coaster.
    Had an 10th floor apartment in a Crystal City high rise for three years where we could see the Pentagon and Arlington out the window, with the National Cathedral in the distance
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,098
    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

    So true story ...

    I’ma big JFK assassination guy and too much stuff doesn’t add up to me but whatever ...

    I had an internship in downtown Dallas and would always drive by the Book Depository and the big X in the middle of the road. Everything about it screamed that it looked familiar to me but I couldn’t place it ...

    Yeah ...
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,025
    I actually forgot a big one. Not so much a historical landmark - but a historical must-see.

    The World War II Museum in New Orleans is fucking incredible. We were there for about 5 hours and still didn't see everything.

    Truly amazing place. In depth to the Nth degree.
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,280 Founders Club

    If you drive through Yosemite to Sequoia you go over a 10000 foot pass

    395 in California is a beautiful drive

    95 in Oregon

    The 101 from Crescent City to San Francisco

    Once upon a time, @iDawg talked about riding his motorcycle up the 101 to SF
  • HuskyJW
    HuskyJW Member Posts: 15,265
    I've been to the Original Hooters in Orlando
  • dflea
    dflea Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,287 Swaye's Wigwam
    Bastogne. Stood out in a field next to a concrete pillbox, got baked, and thought about Panzers and Sherman tanks facing off.

    Also Spa Francorchamps Belgium, home of one of the greatest race tracks of all tim. Stood on the track at Eau Rouge after watching Micheal Schumacher burn up the track.

    Oh, and Shelton, Washington. Hugely important from a historical perspective.
  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    89ute said:


    this reminds me, i slept under the world's largest coke sign...



    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_billboard
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,216 Founders Club

    89ute said:


    this reminds me, i slept under the world's largest coke sign...



    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_billboard
    I’ve crashed at a condo next to the Coke sign in the Cross. IFL Sydney.
  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346

    89ute said:


    this reminds me, i slept under the world's largest coke sign...



    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_billboard
    I’ve crashed at a condo next to the Coke sign in the Cross. IFL Sydney.
    #metoo
  • backthepack
    backthepack Member Posts: 19,937
    edited January 2019
    The Churchill war rooms are amazing.
  • UWhuskytskeet
    UWhuskytskeet Member Posts: 7,113
    Haven't seen it mentioned yet, but the Colosseum was pretty fucking cool. We were one of the last to get in before it closed for the night, and it was rainy, so it wasn't too crowded. Was able to chill in a corner and soak everything in, including the ruins just outside.

    Rome is dirty and you feel like you are going to get stabbed, but God there is a lot of cool shit there.
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,025

    89ute said:


    this reminds me, i slept under the world's largest coke sign...



    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_billboard
    I’ve crashed at a condo next to the Coke sign in the Cross. IFL Sydney.
    #metoo



    You guys are fags.

    There's more in Australia than coke signs.


  • huskyhooligan
    huskyhooligan Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,922 Swaye's Wigwam
    Came to also say Gettysburg. The number of monuments is astounding and that more Americans died there in 3 days than the entirety of Vietnam. Stumbled on Hamilton's grave in NYC before the Rutgers game. Grants tomb as well. NYC loves Grant, with stuff all over Brooklyn and Manhattan dedicated to the guy.

    Most important location is I visited the site for the filming of the gang conclave from the movie The Warriors.