I was there last June. South Dakota is full of great sites. The midnight star casino is badass in deadwood. Full of movie props from Kevin Costners movies. Thats the same casino that he owns.

GO visit the cemetary and see all the legendary figures of deadwood.

also, this badass museum..

http://adamsmuseumandhouse.org/answers/jackmccall.html


Along the interstate coming from the east, you'll pass alot of old towns worth stopping by. Also...lots of national parks to visit there as well.

THeres also the chance to visit with one of the horses that was in Dances with Wolves at one of the off road attractions.


By the way...if you are ever in the desert...and you stop by a gas station and some old timer says to take a shortcut through the desert...dont listen to him. I hear the desert is full of radioactive people that will attack you...

Are you a big Carmen San Diego fan or something?

Nah...its called Call of Duty 2, and 3

medal of Honor

Wolfenstein

and then some Cabelas hunting games and dangerous hunt games etc

Some of the highlights, that I can think of off the top of my head:

Various places in Rome (Colliseum, Forum, Vatican, etc.)
Boston
Lexington & Concord
New York (USS Intrepid, Battery Park, cemetary near Wall Street where Hamilton is buried)
Williamsburg
Washington, D.C.
Charleston/Fort Sumter
Deadwood/Devil's Tower/various places in the Black Hills
Yellowstone
Little Bighorn Battlefield
Jesse James House

I know I've been to more places than that, but I'm drawing a blank right now.

I deeply regret not seeing more historical sites in Europe during my Navy days, but back then I pretty much spent what little extra cash I had on beer. I should have visited far more places than I actually have. :banghead:

And I've planned trips to Gettysburg on three separate occasions, but something always screws them up at the last minute. I'm starting to think I'm not meant to go there.

Compared to some of these, mine's kinda lame....unless you're like me and have studied the subject endlessly....

Dealey Plaza, Dallas Texas.

Site of the assassination of JFK.

The Texas Book Depository has been turned into a museum about November 22, 1963.

I forgot to add this one, its a subject of intense interest for me too. I didnt exactly go there, but the train i took to LA did a very slow crossing on that overpass & i got a real good look at all of the points of interest. Possibly the ugliest incident in American history.

So was it one bullet that did all the damage? One shooter?

Did they get the cantilevered part of the house fixed? I thought I read they were working on it.

I too liked the site of the JFK assassination. Very surreal when there's all of these people around, some talking about the conspiracy theories and pointing out various landmarks, etc. By far the creepiest thing though is the "X marks the spot" landmark on the street.

Also cool to visit was the site of the Oklahoma City bombing. Lots of interesting stuff there including a nearby building that was damaged (slightly) from the blast and not repaired.

Impossible.

Yeah, there's almost too much to list for that area. The only bad thing about Deadwood is that it's so far from everything else up there. One other thing we saw that was cool up there was an bank in Deadwood (see photo) that my wife has a business connection with. It's fully restored to the old west era right down to the bars on the teller windows, and in the basement there were these blocked off entrances to a bunch of underground tunnels that apparently chinese slaves lived in back in the gold rush days. Strange.

This pic didn't scan very well but here it is anyway.

I've been to many sites with historical significance, but probably the most interesting to me, in lines with this thread topic; Sarajevo, and stood on the corner where Archduke Ferdinand was killed.

For historical sites I'd have to say my trip to Israel would be the tops for me.

Jerusalem is really cool, walking through the old gates is a neat experience that you just can't get here in the US. The city has been overbuilt though, the crusades brought temples and cathedrals to every site of record.

My favorite parts of the trip were the collesium at Tiberias, where Paul pleaded for his life. Huge arena that overlooked the Mediaterrian.

I also liked the Sea of Galilee, took a boat ride across that. I'd have to tell you it's more of a lake though, not all that big. It's gorgeous out there though.

I also floated in the Dead Sea, which is fun but burns those "sensitive" areas of skin that you have.

When I was in Israel I also went to the Holocost museum there. I've never been so moved by a museum before. On the top floor there was a room with floor to ceiling books, with the names of those killed. I saw men weeping over those books, and thumbing through them pointing out family members to their children. The stories that are in there that have never been heard are amazing.

Let me add that I have never felt as safe walking around a city as I did in Jerusalem. Something about police everywhere with machine guns does that for you!

The church my wife and I attended in Dallas was planning a trip there just as we started to prepare for our move to MO. I was bummed, it is a trip I would like to make someday.

My comments in bold.