Favorite Historical Places You’ve Visited
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Alamo is underwhelming, but I crouched where Steve McQueen crouched.
The Plains of Abraham
HillsboroDuck
New Fish
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.
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.
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.
HillsboroDuck
New Fish
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.
[/QUOTE]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[/b] or Alaska NPs which is a blackeye for me, IMO.[/QUOTE]
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.
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[/b] or Alaska NPs which is a blackeye for me, IMO.[/QUOTE]
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.
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
395 in California is a beautiful drive
95 in Oregon
The 101 from Crescent City to San Francisco
HillsboroDuck
New Fish
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.
Really need to raft West Virginia. Grand Canyon from the river would be a dream come true.
Never been to the Arizona Memorial but have been on BB 63 and the view from it looking at the Arizona is amazing. IFL love Battleships. They were the coolest capital ships we? ever built. No offense to @Swaye .
I used to Mt Bike a ton on the Mormon trail over the Wasatch Mts in Utah (hi @89ute ). This was the Donner Party got stuck cutting a trail over the mts which led to them getting to the Sierras too late.
It was August 20 by the time that they reached a point in the mountains where they could look down and see the Great Salt Lake. It took almost another two weeks to travel out of the Wasatch Mountains. The men began to argue, and doubts were expressed about the wisdom of those who had chosen this route, in particular James Reed. Food and supplies began to run out for some of the less affluent families. Stanton and Pike had ridden out with Reed but had become lost on their way back; by the time that the party found them, they were a day away from eating their horses.[43] [/i]
It was August 20 by the time that they reached a point in the mountains where they could look down and see the Great Salt Lake. It took almost another two weeks to travel out of the Wasatch Mountains. The men began to argue, and doubts were expressed about the wisdom of those who had chosen this route, in particular James Reed. Food and supplies began to run out for some of the less affluent families. Stanton and Pike had ridden out with Reed but had become lost on their way back; by the time that the party found them, they were a day away from eating their horses.[43] [/i]
I used to Mt Bike a ton on the Mormon trail over the Wasatch Mts in Utah (hi @89ute ). This was the Donner Party got stuck cutting a trail over the mts which led to them getting to the Sierras too late.
It was August 20 by the time that they reached a point in the mountains where they could look down and see the Great Salt Lake. It took almost another two weeks to travel out of the Wasatch Mountains. The men began to argue, and doubts were expressed about the wisdom of those who had chosen this route, in particular James Reed. Food and supplies began to run out for some of the less affluent families. Stanton and Pike had ridden out with Reed but had become lost on their way back; by the time that the party found them, they were a day away from eating their horses.[43] [/i]
My wife and I took photos in front of the Donner Pass sign on the 80
She's as bad as I am
I made the pilgrimage to see this in London last year...
HillsboroDuck
New Fish
Perhaps I should have mentioned I've been on the deck of the that there USS Missouri where @RoadDawg55's grandfather surrendered to end WWII but I figured most everyone connected to Western Washington has been there at some poont in tim.
Never been to the Arizona Memorial but have been on BB 63 and the view from it looking at the Arizona is amazing. IFL love Battleships. They were the coolest capital ships we? ever built. No offense to @Swaye .
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 sites
- Monticello - Jefferson be my favorite
HillsboroDuck
New Fish
Rushmore is pretty cool. Been there and Crazy Horse.
GrundleStiltzkin
New Fish
#MeToo. I thought Devil's Tower was more impressive than Rushmore.
