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#1
EscherEnigma
Oct 10, 2011 21:20:42 Just kinda curious what major landmarks people have visited.

My list (off the top of my head) includes the Statue of Liberty (went all the way to the crown before they closed it), the White House, George Washington's House (or Abraham Lincoln's house... can't remember which. Are both open to the public as mueseums?), the various Smithsonian museums of natural history, the Smithsonian Air and Space museum, Times Square, the Alamo, Trinity Site, Grand Canyon, Meteor Crater, the London Bridge, something-or-other in Lincoln County (can't remember clearly), just about all the ghost towns in New Mexico, Ship Island, Las Vegas (Luxor, MGM, Stratosphere, other assorted sundries), the Schliterban Water Park in Texas, the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial...

Mostly Washington DC stuff and South West stuff. I hope to start adding California landmarks over the next year (Death Valley is slated for December).

About the most impressive one would be the Grand Canyon, though DC was really neat just for how much history they have crammed in such a small place.

What landmarks/interesting places have other people got on their list?
#2
bone_naga
Oct 10, 2011 22:05:48 Well my run in DC took me past a few monuments there, not to mention the Pentagon and I was there when the Pentagon Memorial was opened. There was the Custer House in Kansas (not his actual house but one that was the same style and layout as the one he lived in), the Space Museum in Huntsville, a lot of other museums that I can't recall, Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, Central Park, 9/11 Memorial, a couple of Saddam Hussein's Palaces, I may just have to come back and add to this later, since I'm really horrible at coming up with a complete list all at once.
#3
jetshield
Oct 10, 2011 22:16:24 I'll just lump all of DC into one category. I've been there a dozen times or so. NYC for a month, so there's probably not many real monuments I missed there. Been to Yellowstone 4 times, so add Old Faithful and all those. Mount Rushmore (three times), the Alamo (twice), Niagara Falls (more times than I can count), Drake Oil Well, Eisenhower's House, The Liberty Bell (big surprise, huh?), Gettysburg (another surprise), Cape Canaveral, the Everglades (does that count?), Disney World, all of the Great Lakes (of course), Lake Itasca (and, naturally, several hundred miles of the Mississippi River [seems like it should count]), Great Falls Portage, Sequoia National Park (you should visit), Yosemite National Park (here too), the Hoover Dam (twice), the Four Corners Monument (surprised you didn't mention this one), the Grand Canyon, the Little Big Horn Monument, Robert Frost's house.

There's probably a hundred more I can't think of off the top of my head. I've visited all 48 of the contiguous states. One of these days I'd like to get to Alaska and Hawaii.
#4
draco1119
Oct 10, 2011 22:33:47 Boston Common, Harvard U, the 54th Massachussetts Memorial, USS Constitution, Stephen King's house, Bath in New England (there's more, but it really depends on what you define as "major")
White House, Lincoln Memorial, various Smithsonian institutions (including Air & Space), Washington Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Library of Congress, the Capitol, US Naval Academy in DC and environs
Gettysburg Battlefield, Eisenhower Museum, Liberty Hall in PA
Benjamin Harrison's House, Johnny Appleseed's grave, Fort Wayne, Connor Prairie, Indianapolis Speedway in Indiana
Wright-Patterson AFB and Museum and the Wright Bros. house in Ohio
National Churchill Museum and Gateway Arch in Missouri
Ottumwa, Iowa (home of M*A*S*H's Radar O'Reilly! )
Sears Tower and Soldier Field in Illinois
The Presidio, Alcatraz, Golden Gate Bridge, Mission San Franciso, Coit Tower, Haight-Ashbury, Treasure Island, Chinatown, The Castro, The Embarcadero, Travis AFB, Lake Tahoe in NorCal (and I played softball with Jason Kidd in Oakland once)
Joshua Tree National Park, Nixon Memorial Library (and birthplace), San Juan Capistrano (both the mission and Nixon's adult home), Mission San Diego, LA Coliseum, Disneyland, Hoover Dam, Vegas in SoCal and nearby
#5
Mad_Jack
Oct 11, 2011 2:44:12
Well, being from New England, I've seen most of the major ones in the area... (And you can't throw a rock around here without hitting a historical landmark - hell, you probably just threw a historical rock, lol)

From North the South...

VT: The Old Man of the Mountain... VT State House...
NH: the Canterbury Shaker village... Daniel Webster house... USS Albacore...
MA: most of the historic places in Boston... Harvard... Plymouth, MA... Salem, MA...
RI: nearly every historic site in the state - not difficult since you can drive across the state in under an hour in any direction...
CT: since I live here, I've seen pretty much everything... (I actually live within 20 miles of the US Coast Guard Academy, the USS Nautilus and the Battle of New London)

NY: mostly things in NYC... the Statue of Liberty... Radio City Music Hall... the USS Intrepid... the World Trade Center... Grand Cental Station... Yankee Stadium... the Museum of Natural History... the Empire State Building... Central Park... Times Square... Broadway... Rockefeller Center...
NJ: the Albert Einstein house... the Walt Whitman house... the Land of Make Believe amusement park... a bunch of historical sites...
PA: Gettysburg... the Liberty Bell/Independence Hall/some other places in Philly... Allentown... Hershey Park...
WV: Point Pleasant (home of the Mothman from Richard Gere's The Mothman Prophecies)... Matewan...
FL: Universal Studios City Walk... Disney World... Kennedy Space Center... Gatorworld...

I also got to see a lot of the famous places in Las Vegas when I was there.

#6
pluisjen
Oct 11, 2011 3:26:26 Most of them are in Egpyt. The Pyramids, Sphinx, Abu Simbel and a bunch more minor temples and stuff.
A bunch of castles and cathedrals througout Europe, mostly in Germany, the Chech Republic and Slovakia.

I'm not much of a landmark hunter. Want to visit Stonehenge, though.
#7
Cpt_Micha
Oct 11, 2011 7:50:05 I've been to Grandfather Mountain
Linville Caverns
Biltmore House,
the USS North Carolina (want to go again since they were doing some renovation at the time)
USS Cod (diesel sub up in Cleveland)
Daytona Speedway (during the off season)
Zmax Dragway (4 lane dragstrip only one of it's kind in the world... during race day. That was something awesome)
Disney World
#8
draco1119
Oct 11, 2011 9:19:22
SF pier 39, golden gate park

If we're counting these, I worked on Pier 39 and, um... "became a man" in Golden Gate Park.
#9
zombie_babies
Oct 11, 2011 9:49:10 My memory is terrible but ya'all helped me remember some. Let's see ...

Mammoth Cave
Blue Hole (Castalia OH)
USS Cod
William G Mather (ore ship like the Edmund Fitzgerald)
Niagara Falls
Brandywine Falls (in OH)
Serpent Mound (Native American site in OH)
The Warther Museum
Kitty Hawk
Ocracoke Island (and the wild horses there)
Some lighthouses at Cape Hatteras and other nearby areas
The Gulf Stream
Athens
Zeus' Temple
I was right next to the Acropolis or whatever, too. We could see it but didn't have time to walk there
Corfu
Corfu Town
The castle at Corfu town

I'm positive there's more but I just can't remember. I know I've been to more caves than just Mammoth and some other Native American sites, too. And I'm sure I've been to other places of note in the Outer Banks as well as some in the Cleveland/Akron area. Field trips an' stuff are things I just can't remember. Oh well.
#10
LFK
Oct 11, 2011 10:09:29 Whoooooooo

Washington D.C. (and surrounding area) - so much there that I might as well say I saw all of it. Every museum on the mall, every monument (save WW2 which was still under construction at the time), tours of the Capitol and White House, Arlington Cemetary, Pentagon, Manassas Battlefield, Harper's Ferry, George Washington Masonic Memorial, the LDS temple, and dozens of tiny Civil War battlefield parks.

New York - Empire State Building, Time Square, Broadway, Central Park, Rockafeller Center, Radio City, Ground Zero, Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Central Station, and I think that's about all I saw. I took a photo of the Statue of Liberty from Manhattan, but I didn't go out to Elles Island 'cus I only had one day.

The bridges in Jacksonville, Florida.

Miami beach.

El Paso, Texas.

The Golden Gate Bridge (didn't have much time to see anything else in San Fran).

Temple Square, Salt Lake City.

I've been to Vancouver and Vancouver Island tons of times, but I can't think of anything that counts as a landmark beyond the area itself. Sea World?

Mount Robson, Banff National Park, Jasper National Park, Glacier National Park (both Canada and US), Gargantua Caves.

Calgary Tower, Olympic Plaza, The Saddle Dome, and, of course, the Calgary Stempede and Exhibition.

West Edmonton Mall.

The Sleeping Giant (Thunder Bay).

Toronto - CN Tower, Union Station, Yonge Street.

Ottawa - Parlaiment Hill (+ tour of the House of Commons).

Niagra Falls.

Montreal - a lot of gelleries and museums along Sherbrooke and Peel.

Halifax Harbour.

Sydney Opera House, Darling Harbour, Hyde Park (and Anzac War Memorial), Royal Botanic Gardens, Central Station, and environs.

Port Macquarie, Byron Bay, Gold Coast.

Brisbane - The Gabba, Kangaroo Point, CBD, Roma Street Station, River Fire, the Botanic Gardens, The Giant Pinapple, Steve Irwin Zoo, King's Beach, and a bunch of other stuff.

Cairns and Darwin.

Melbourne - Southern Cross Station, Bourke Street, Flagstaff Gardens, Queen Victoria Market.

Adelaide - St. Peter's Cathedral, River Torrens.

The Nullabor Plains.

Perth - Port of Freemantle, Swan Bells, King's Park, West Beach.

Alice Springs, Uluaru, Kata Tjuta.

Ummm, I think that's about it.
#11
homicidal_squirrel
Oct 11, 2011 12:28:25

The bridges in Jacksonville, Florida.

Miami beach.

Those count? Huh...

#12
LFK
Oct 11, 2011 13:08:38

The bridges in Jacksonville, Florida.

Miami beach.

Those count? Huh...

I guess. Jacksonville makes a big deal about their bridges, and there's engineering significance to a couple of them.

Miami beach, definitely. It's famous, popular, and people will travel to Miami just to see/hang out on that specific beach. It's like Bondi Beach near Sydney: it's not even the nicest beach in the region, let alone the country, but people want to go to Bondi. Also I'm half including all the amazing Art Deco buildings the line Ocean Drive.
#13
homicidal_squirrel
Oct 11, 2011 13:14:12

The bridges in Jacksonville, Florida.

Miami beach.

Those count? Huh...

I guess. Jacksonville makes a big deal about their bridges, and there's engineering significance to a couple of them.

Miami beach, definitely. It's famous, popular, and people will travel to Miami just to see/hang out on that specific beach. It's like Bondi Beach near Sydney: it's not even the nicest beach in the region, let alone the country, but people want to go to Bondi. Also I'm half including all the amazing Art Deco buildings the line Ocean Drive.

I guess when you don't see it every other day, it makes sense.
#14
Mad_Jack
Oct 12, 2011 3:18:26

I guess when you don't see it every other day, it makes sense.

For me, the main significance of the places where Benedict Arnold's troops landed to attack the American Colonists and where the Amistad finally made landfall is that they're both decent fishing spots... < shrug >

#15
Escef
Oct 12, 2011 5:02:52 I'm not much one for tourism...

MA: Profile Rock, Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Plantation, the Mayflower II. (All but Profile Rock while on school field trips. And that's what most tourist attractions are, the local school kids' 5th grade field trip.)
TX: Ft. Concho
Germany: Castle Frankenstein, Castle Heidelberg (more around than in on that one)
Iraq: Babylon & the palace Saddam had that overlooked it
#16
zombie_babies
Oct 12, 2011 8:22:28
I guess when you don't see it every other day, it makes sense.

That's why all of this is sorta silly when you think about it. I mean, someone sees most of those places every single day. When we brag about places we saw, there's someone that lives there thinking about what kind of rube we are. It's all so ... silly. Like most of human existence.
#17
EscherEnigma
Oct 12, 2011 10:47:28
That's why all of this is sorta silly when you think about it.

Yep!

But if you don't indulge in a bit of silliness every now and then then you're a very non-silly person, and if you're a very non-silly person then what are you doing here?

#18
zombie_babies
Oct 12, 2011 12:13:18 Oh, don't mistake my calling out as criticism - I did participate in the thread after all.

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#1 EscherEnigma Oct 10, 2011 21:20:42	Just kinda curious what major landmarks people have visited. My list (off the top of my head) includes the Statue of Liberty (went all the way to the crown before they closed it), the White House, George Washington's House (or Abraham Lincoln's house... can't remember which. Are both open to the public as mueseums?), the various Smithsonian museums of natural history, the Smithsonian Air and Space museum, Times Square, the Alamo, Trinity Site, Grand Canyon, Meteor Crater, the London Bridge, something-or-other in Lincoln County (can't remember clearly), just about all the ghost towns in New Mexico, Ship Island, Las Vegas (Luxor, MGM, Stratosphere, other assorted sundries), the Schliterban Water Park in Texas, the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial... Mostly Washington DC stuff and South West stuff. I hope to start adding California landmarks over the next year (Death Valley is slated for December). About the most impressive one would be the Grand Canyon, though DC was really neat just for how much history they have crammed in such a small place. What landmarks/interesting places have other people got on their list?
#2 bone_naga Oct 10, 2011 22:05:48	Well my run in DC took me past a few monuments there, not to mention the Pentagon and I was there when the Pentagon Memorial was opened. There was the Custer House in Kansas (not his actual house but one that was the same style and layout as the one he lived in), the Space Museum in Huntsville, a lot of other museums that I can't recall, Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, Central Park, 9/11 Memorial, a couple of Saddam Hussein's Palaces, I may just have to come back and add to this later, since I'm really horrible at coming up with a complete list all at once.
#3 jetshield Oct 10, 2011 22:16:24	I'll just lump all of DC into one category. I've been there a dozen times or so. NYC for a month, so there's probably not many real monuments I missed there. Been to Yellowstone 4 times, so add Old Faithful and all those. Mount Rushmore (three times), the Alamo (twice), Niagara Falls (more times than I can count), Drake Oil Well, Eisenhower's House, The Liberty Bell (big surprise, huh?), Gettysburg (another surprise), Cape Canaveral, the Everglades (does that count?), Disney World, all of the Great Lakes (of course), Lake Itasca (and, naturally, several hundred miles of the Mississippi River [seems like it should count]), Great Falls Portage, Sequoia National Park (you should visit), Yosemite National Park (here too), the Hoover Dam (twice), the Four Corners Monument (surprised you didn't mention this one), the Grand Canyon, the Little Big Horn Monument, Robert Frost's house. There's probably a hundred more I can't think of off the top of my head. I've visited all 48 of the contiguous states. One of these days I'd like to get to Alaska and Hawaii.
#4 draco1119 Oct 10, 2011 22:33:47	Boston Common, Harvard U, the 54th Massachussetts Memorial, USS Constitution, Stephen King's house, Bath in New England (there's more, but it really depends on what you define as "major") White House, Lincoln Memorial, various Smithsonian institutions (including Air & Space), Washington Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Library of Congress, the Capitol, US Naval Academy in DC and environs Gettysburg Battlefield, Eisenhower Museum, Liberty Hall in PA Benjamin Harrison's House, Johnny Appleseed's grave, Fort Wayne, Connor Prairie, Indianapolis Speedway in Indiana Wright-Patterson AFB and Museum and the Wright Bros. house in Ohio National Churchill Museum and Gateway Arch in Missouri Ottumwa, Iowa (home of MAS*H's Radar O'Reilly! ) Sears Tower and Soldier Field in Illinois The Presidio, Alcatraz, Golden Gate Bridge, Mission San Franciso, Coit Tower, Haight-Ashbury, Treasure Island, Chinatown, The Castro, The Embarcadero, Travis AFB, Lake Tahoe in NorCal (and I played softball with Jason Kidd in Oakland once) Joshua Tree National Park, Nixon Memorial Library (and birthplace), San Juan Capistrano (both the mission and Nixon's adult home), Mission San Diego, LA Coliseum, Disneyland, Hoover Dam, Vegas in SoCal and nearby
#5 Mad_Jack Oct 11, 2011 2:44:12	Well, being from New England, I've seen most of the major ones in the area... (And you can't throw a rock around here without hitting a historical landmark - hell, you probably just threw a historical rock, lol) From North the South... VT: The Old Man of the Mountain... VT State House... NH: the Canterbury Shaker village... Daniel Webster house... USS Albacore... MA: most of the historic places in Boston... Harvard... Plymouth, MA... Salem, MA... RI: nearly every historic site in the state - not difficult since you can drive across the state in under an hour in any direction... CT: since I live here, I've seen pretty much everything... (I actually live within 20 miles of the US Coast Guard Academy, the USS Nautilus and the Battle of New London) NY: mostly things in NYC... the Statue of Liberty... Radio City Music Hall... the USS Intrepid... the World Trade Center... Grand Cental Station... Yankee Stadium... the Museum of Natural History... the Empire State Building... Central Park... Times Square... Broadway... Rockefeller Center... NJ: the Albert Einstein house... the Walt Whitman house... the Land of Make Believe amusement park... a bunch of historical sites... PA: Gettysburg... the Liberty Bell/Independence Hall/some other places in Philly... Allentown... Hershey Park... WV: Point Pleasant (home of the Mothman from Richard Gere's The Mothman Prophecies)... Matewan... FL: Universal Studios City Walk... Disney World... Kennedy Space Center... Gatorworld... I also got to see a lot of the famous places in Las Vegas when I was there.
#6 pluisjen Oct 11, 2011 3:26:26	Most of them are in Egpyt. The Pyramids, Sphinx, Abu Simbel and a bunch more minor temples and stuff. A bunch of castles and cathedrals througout Europe, mostly in Germany, the Chech Republic and Slovakia. I'm not much of a landmark hunter. Want to visit Stonehenge, though.
#7 Cpt_Micha Oct 11, 2011 7:50:05	I've been to Grandfather Mountain Linville Caverns Biltmore House, the USS North Carolina (want to go again since they were doing some renovation at the time) USS Cod (diesel sub up in Cleveland) Daytona Speedway (during the off season) Zmax Dragway (4 lane dragstrip only one of it's kind in the world... during race day. That was something awesome) Disney World
#8 draco1119 Oct 11, 2011 9:19:22	SF pier 39, golden gate park If we're counting these, I worked on Pier 39 and, um... "became a man" in Golden Gate Park.
#9 zombie_babies Oct 11, 2011 9:49:10	My memory is terrible but ya'all helped me remember some. Let's see ... Mammoth Cave Blue Hole (Castalia OH) USS Cod William G Mather (ore ship like the Edmund Fitzgerald) Niagara Falls Brandywine Falls (in OH) Serpent Mound (Native American site in OH) The Warther Museum Kitty Hawk Ocracoke Island (and the wild horses there) Some lighthouses at Cape Hatteras and other nearby areas The Gulf Stream Athens Zeus' Temple I was right next to the Acropolis or whatever, too. We could see it but didn't have time to walk there Corfu Corfu Town The castle at Corfu town I'm positive there's more but I just can't remember. I know I've been to more caves than just Mammoth and some other Native American sites, too. And I'm sure I've been to other places of note in the Outer Banks as well as some in the Cleveland/Akron area. Field trips an' stuff are things I just can't remember. Oh well.
#10 LFK Oct 11, 2011 10:09:29	Whoooooooo Washington D.C. (and surrounding area) - so much there that I might as well say I saw all of it. Every museum on the mall, every monument (save WW2 which was still under construction at the time), tours of the Capitol and White House, Arlington Cemetary, Pentagon, Manassas Battlefield, Harper's Ferry, George Washington Masonic Memorial, the LDS temple, and dozens of tiny Civil War battlefield parks. New York - Empire State Building, Time Square, Broadway, Central Park, Rockafeller Center, Radio City, Ground Zero, Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Central Station, and I think that's about all I saw. I took a photo of the Statue of Liberty from Manhattan, but I didn't go out to Elles Island 'cus I only had one day. The bridges in Jacksonville, Florida. Miami beach. El Paso, Texas. The Golden Gate Bridge (didn't have much time to see anything else in San Fran). Temple Square, Salt Lake City. I've been to Vancouver and Vancouver Island tons of times, but I can't think of anything that counts as a landmark beyond the area itself. Sea World? Mount Robson, Banff National Park, Jasper National Park, Glacier National Park (both Canada and US), Gargantua Caves. Calgary Tower, Olympic Plaza, The Saddle Dome, and, of course, the Calgary Stempede and Exhibition. West Edmonton Mall. The Sleeping Giant (Thunder Bay). Toronto - CN Tower, Union Station, Yonge Street. Ottawa - Parlaiment Hill (+ tour of the House of Commons). Niagra Falls. Montreal - a lot of gelleries and museums along Sherbrooke and Peel. Halifax Harbour. Sydney Opera House, Darling Harbour, Hyde Park (and Anzac War Memorial), Royal Botanic Gardens, Central Station, and environs. Port Macquarie, Byron Bay, Gold Coast. Brisbane - The Gabba, Kangaroo Point, CBD, Roma Street Station, River Fire, the Botanic Gardens, The Giant Pinapple, Steve Irwin Zoo, King's Beach, and a bunch of other stuff. Cairns and Darwin. Melbourne - Southern Cross Station, Bourke Street, Flagstaff Gardens, Queen Victoria Market. Adelaide - St. Peter's Cathedral, River Torrens. The Nullabor Plains. Perth - Port of Freemantle, Swan Bells, King's Park, West Beach. Alice Springs, Uluaru, Kata Tjuta. Ummm, I think that's about it.
#11 homicidal_squirrel Oct 11, 2011 12:28:25	The bridges in Jacksonville, Florida. Miami beach. Those count? Huh...
#12 LFK Oct 11, 2011 13:08:38	The bridges in Jacksonville, Florida. Miami beach. Those count? Huh... I guess. Jacksonville makes a big deal about their bridges, and there's engineering significance to a couple of them. Miami beach, definitely. It's famous, popular, and people will travel to Miami just to see/hang out on that specific beach. It's like Bondi Beach near Sydney: it's not even the nicest beach in the region, let alone the country, but people want to go to Bondi. Also I'm half including all the amazing Art Deco buildings the line Ocean Drive.
#13 homicidal_squirrel Oct 11, 2011 13:14:12	The bridges in Jacksonville, Florida. Miami beach. Those count? Huh... I guess. Jacksonville makes a big deal about their bridges, and there's engineering significance to a couple of them. Miami beach, definitely. It's famous, popular, and people will travel to Miami just to see/hang out on that specific beach. It's like Bondi Beach near Sydney: it's not even the nicest beach in the region, let alone the country, but people want to go to Bondi. Also I'm half including all the amazing Art Deco buildings the line Ocean Drive. I guess when you don't see it every other day, it makes sense.
#14 Mad_Jack Oct 12, 2011 3:18:26	I guess when you don't see it every other day, it makes sense. For me, the main significance of the places where Benedict Arnold's troops landed to attack the American Colonists and where the Amistad finally made landfall is that they're both decent fishing spots... < shrug >
#15 Escef Oct 12, 2011 5:02:52	I'm not much one for tourism... MA: Profile Rock, Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Plantation, the Mayflower II. (All but Profile Rock while on school field trips. And that's what most tourist attractions are, the local school kids' 5th grade field trip.) TX: Ft. Concho Germany: Castle Frankenstein, Castle Heidelberg (more around than in on that one) Iraq: Babylon & the palace Saddam had that overlooked it
#16 zombie_babies Oct 12, 2011 8:22:28	I guess when you don't see it every other day, it makes sense. That's why all of this is sorta silly when you think about it. I mean, someone sees most of those places every single day. When we brag about places we saw, there's someone that lives there thinking about what kind of rube we are. It's all so ... silly. Like most of human existence.
#17 EscherEnigma Oct 12, 2011 10:47:28	That's why all of this is sorta silly when you think about it. Yep! But if you don't indulge in a bit of silliness every now and then then you're a very non-silly person, and if you're a very non-silly person then what are you doing here?
#18 zombie_babies Oct 12, 2011 12:13:18	Oh, don't mistake my calling out as criticism - I did participate in the thread after all.