I went to Carhenge in western Nebraska once. If that doesn't excite you, I've seen the world's largest ball of twine in Cawker City, Kansas. :thumb:

Pearl Harbor (I work on base a stones throw from the memorial)
Gettysburg
Valley Forge
Manassas (I used to walk there a lot when I lived in Northern Virginia)
Jamestown
Independence Hall (and the Liberty Bell)
Lincoln Memorial
Washington Memorial
White House
All the Smithsonian Museums

I'm sure there are more, but that is all I can think of off the top of my head.

As a former Civil War buff:

Gettysburg National Military Park
Manassas National Battlefield Park including live re-nactment by living history groups
Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Park
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park
Grants Home

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Badlands National Park
Mount Rushmore National Park & Memorial
Redwood National Forest
Golden Gate Bridge Park
Presido of San Franciso

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Minuteman National Historic Park- live re-nactment
Boston National Historical Parks: Freedom Trail... Paul Revere House, Bunker Hill,(live reanactments) USS Constitution, Faneuil Hall
Plymouth Plantation and Mayflower
Saratoga National Historic Park

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Mt. Vernon
Parts of Underground RR
Savannah Historic District
Southern Plantations and Homes in the South: LA, GA, SC, VA
Historic Charleston
Harpers Ferry
John Brown Memorial Park
Historic Jamestowne-National Park Service
Colonial Williamsburg

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New Orleans Jazz Historical Park- parts of; Vieux Carre, Canal Street, Lafayette Square
Jean Lafitte Historical Park- parts of
Preservation Hall

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Lincoln Memorial
Jefferson Memorial
Capital - Congress and Senate Buildings
White House
Washington Monument

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Brooklyn Bridge
Empire State Building
Statue of Liberty
WTC
United Nations

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Castillo de San Marcos in St Augustine, and historic St. Augustine
Fort DeSoto National Memorial and Park- Florida
Everglades National Park
Acadia National Park Maine
Cumberland Island National Seashore
Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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Parthenon - Athens Greece
Rhodes, Greece- where Colossus of Rhodes existed one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The medieval city is a World Heritage Site
Great Pyramids of Giza-Egypt
The Great Sphinx of Giza

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Cathedral of Notre Dame- Paris
Arch de Triomphe- Paris
Louvre Museum
Les Jardins des Tuileries- Paris
Eiffel Tower- Paris
Place Pigalle- Paris
Montemartre- Paris
Palace of Versaille- Versaille France

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Grimaldi Castle Monte Carlo
Anne Frank House- Amsterdam

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Big Ben- London
Westministers Abbey
British Parliament
St. Paul's Cathedral
Coventry Cathedral- bombed out ruins by German Luftwaffe WWII
Canterbury Cathedral-Thomas à Becket
Warwick Castle and another castle in England but don't remember names
Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace
Tower of London
Stonehenge
Sherwood Forest
Battle of Hastings
Karl Marx grave...so I could spit on it
Bronte sisters home
Yorkshire Moors
Old city York - Medieval walled city
Dicken's home
Anne Hathaway House
Stratford-on-Avon
Globe Theatre


About a third as a child, pre-teen, young teen and don't remember them all.
Most of Europe did in college.
Some done while on business trips or passing through
Some were vacations, weekend trips as an adult,or visiting friends, family
Greece/Egypt was a honeymoon
New England-because I lived there

This site is of major interest to me as well. If you ever have the time, it's well worth it to see Dealey Plaza and the 6th Floor Museum. There's an Assassination Center in the area too that's pretty good. I was always one of those whose just took it for granted that LHO did it. That is, until I went there....it changed almost everything I had previously understood about the assassination and I spent quite a bit of time researching the event and what led up to it, the aftermath, etc. etc. If you want a tour, just let me know. :)

When in the Army, I was lucky enough to be stationed at West Point for 3 years. It rocked!

Gettysburg, Deadwood, Mt. Rushmore, Grant's home in Galena I went up to this summer.

Washington D.C....Mall, church where George Washington and Robert E. Lee attended, Mt. Vernon

Paris...Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomph, Palace of Versailles

Verdun...World War I battlefield/town. Verdun has a beautiful church in it. Can rival the beauty of Notre Dame. Includes a shrine to Joan of Arc.

(various other battlefields and cemeteries throughout North and Northwestern France. One of significance was the battlefield Hitler's comrades were killed in. After Germany took over France, Hitler made a stop there to pay tribute to his fellow soldiers. Albert is a great little town with much historical depth. See: "The Leaning Virgin". Many chatteaus I stayed at in the French country played an important part in World War I as hospitals or military headquarters.)

Ipers, Belgium...this was cool. For one, Belgium is a great little country with nice people. Two was the personal bike ride tour throughout the Belgium countryside we were able to experience. Saw more battlefields of World War I.

Omaha Beach and Point du Hoc, various towns of Normandy. One of the most peaceful places I've ever been to.

That's what I can remember. At 19 years old, I can say I've been privileged to see so much at a young age. This spring break, my family is going to San Antonio, and we will be seeing the Alamo and the four mission churches built there in the early 1700s, among other things. This will be an excellent trip. And the week after that, I am getting a trip to West Branch, Iowa together for the History Club and we'll explore Herbert Hoover's life and presidency.

I will be attending the University of Connecticut in a year and a half, so there I can take some trips to some old east coast/New England sites. After that I will study some time overseas, probably in Italy.

Top places of interest I want to see before I'm 30 years old:
- Vatican City
- Rome
- Sicily
- Venice
- Naples
- Milan
- Istanbul, various other places in Turkey
- Jersulem
- Germany, especially Munich, Nurembourg
- Vienna
- Spain

Cool another "seasoned" traveler

Sheesh, get around much??? Thats a helluva world traveler list.

I guess its not really historical, but it was cool to go to the Griffith Observatory in LA where James Dean had his scene with Dennis Hoppers "gang" & stand in the footsteps of a legend.

Tons of state parks all over America too, from the south across the west. I cant claim to be a world traveler though.

I had a crazy friend who would plans trips around seeing stupid shit like this. For real. She actually drove from Chicago to LaCrosse, Wisconsin to take a picture of six fuel storage tanks that are painted to resemble beer cans. That was the object of her trip - she took the pictures and immediately returned to Chicago. Made lots of similar trips to similar destinations, and kept a photo album of pictures of these stupid things.

Anyway, she was supposed to go to Galena (little tourist town in western Illinois near a casino) with the wife and I one weekend. We were only going to stay one night, so timing was tight. At the last minute, she decreed that she couldn't go unless we went to Riverside, Iowa as well. Why? Because Riverside is the future birthplace of Captain Kirk, and she had to buy a vial of dirt.

I swear to God I'm not making this up.

I had basically invited her to go along with us to be nice (I felt sorry for her, since she didn't have many friends, because she was a crazy pain in the ass) and then she insists on taking a detour to a place 2 hours from Galena on a weekend trip to buy a vial of fucking dirt to commemorate the the future birth of a FICTIONAL CHARACTER. :spock: We haven't spoke since I told her to she out of her fucking mind and to go get her damned dirt on her own time.

Friggin nut. :shake:

I'll take you up on it if i can one of these days.

Its amazing what you can find out once you start looking at things for yourself instead of accepting the company line.

LMAO ... :LOL: ...... ROFL

I've only been to USA and Canada, but have seen mucho cool stuff:

Civil War:
KC Area:
Wornall House
Battle of Independence, MO
Battle of Little Blue River
Battle of Westport
Battle at Byram's Ford
Other Civil War:
Wilson's Creek - Springfield, MO
Battle of Lexington, MO
Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark
Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis

Battle of Bull Run, Manassas, VA
Antietam, MD
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
Stone Mountain, GA
Fredricksburg, VA
Wilderness, VA

Other Cool Stuff:
Washington DC, saw everything, I was there for a month as a tourist.
Major Cities, seen just about everything cool:
Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Dallas, Denver, LA, San Fran, Indy, Cleveland, Buffalo, Detroit, Philly, Atlanta, Memphis, Nashville, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Santa Fe, Las Vegas

Other Cool Historical Stuff Off Beaten Path:
Virginia:
Monticello
Washington & Lee Univ (Robt E Lee burial place)
Hoover Dam
Fort Tyconderoga
Ft. McHenry
Ft. Smith
Ft. Osage
Ft. Washington
Ft. Knox, KY
Lincoln's Burial Site Springfield, IL
SAC command Bellvue, NEB

Nature Stuff:
Royal Gorge, CO
Niagra Falls, NY
LaBrea Tarpits, LA
Mammoth Cave, KY
White Sands, NM
Start of Mississippi River, Minnesota

Military Academies:
West Point, NY
Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
Air Force Academy, Colo Springs, CO

Presidential Libraries:
FDR, Hyde Park, NY
Truman, Indep. MO
Ike, Abeline, KS
Bubba, Little Rock, AR

Saw the Canadian capital in Ottawa, it was a beautiful place. Went from Windsor, Ont all the way to Quebec City on the Trans-Canada. Go sometime if you have a chance.

Those are just the historical ones. I try to be efficient. It looks like more trips than average but when combined with other things really is not. My exhad tons of frequent flyers due to working around the country...so it was cheap. Some were on the move down to Florida or on the way to the MidWest from Boston to meet his family. Some were while on business.

I forgot one: Deadwood, South Dakota ( when I went to Mt. Rushmore)
and Salem Mass...of course it was near where I lived.

I also forgot the start of the Miss River at Lake Itasca...but I didn't consider it historical.

Also,I briefly lived behind the Harriet Tubman House in Cambridge.
I lived on Bunker Hill Street in Boston once too. Had a Battle of Bunker Hill Day party once too. It's a holiday for that part of Boston only with a parade.

I Lived in England for three years; Stonehenge (before they roped it off and you could actually walk between the stones), Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Tower of London, the British Museum and many more, Warwick castle, etc. etc. I was in the scouts as a kid over there and we hiked along Hadrians wall, Grim's ditch, slept in the grounds of Berkhamstead castle, Roman ruins everywhere; Bath in particular.

In the US, civil war battlefields from Gettysburg to Vicksburg (not alphabetically though) :), small frontier battlefields throughout the West (I can't pass by a historic site sign without stopping - most of my vacation drives are spontaneous adventures with hours of slack time for the unexpected - lots of interesting things to see in the good 'ol USA).

I'm trying to swing a weeks vacation at the Smithsonian soon, last time there only had a day to spend so I picked the Air and Space museum.

Would a visit to the Mustang Ranch in Vegas be considered a historical visit? :)