What Cool Historical Sites Have You Been To???
 

Being that i am a serious history buff, i thought it would be interesting to hear about the travels of you Planeteers.

With such a diverse cross-section of people here, there should be a very wide variety of great places.

Civil War battlefields???

The Great Pyramids of Egypt???

Maybe the wonders of Greece or Rome???

South American ruins of the Aztecs & Maya etc.???

My best 2 would have to be the Custer National Battlefield & the Old State Capitol here in Springfield.

On the drive up to live in Montana we went way out of the way to stop at the Custer site, i as a 9 year old boy only had a passing, 9 year olds knowledge of the event yet i was totally blown away by the vibe of that place. Even as a young boy i could feel the "heaviness" in the air on that barren, desolate plain. You almost felt as if it just happened. I have never been to a place that affected me more deeply. I have read a lot of books on it since. The on-site museum is killer as well.

At the Capitol building, it was very interesting to stand in the very spot that Lincoln stood, to look down & think that someone as important as Abe stood right where you are. There are actually a ton of places like that here in Springfield, Lincolns New Salem outside of town in Petersburg, Ill is a great place & still looks just like it did in the old days. They have festivals where actors dress up in period costume & give demonstrations on everything from how to make homemade butter to how to fish using old time technology. If you ever come to this area i recommend it. A very cool place for a romantic date.

So anyway, thats the best i've got, where have you been???

Astrodome

Site of the last Chiefs playoff victory.

I don't like historical sites, Mr. scott free. I prefer new ones. Less dust.

However, I think a lot of guys here have been to Mr. Redrum_69's Old Cooter Museum.

FAX

I've been to a buttload of places. Noteably though, I live 30 minutes from Gettysburg, PA.

I've traveled the world. I've been to archeology digs at the Dead Sea, saw the pyramids, Rome, Athens, Stoneage, Jerusalem Old city(lived there for 3 months), Venice, Paris etc etc

The "coolest"? Jerusalem hands down. The most beautiful city in the world.

OUCH!! :(

Mt. Rushmore was really cool when I took the family in the Summer of 2000.

I really liked goin to the Mayan ruins

Your travels are well documented & i must say i'm quite jealous. I absolutely have to see Israel before i die.

Last summer, my family visited the Northfield bank that Jesse James and his gang tried to rob. The tour guide did a very nice job of describing the raid, the gunfight, the subsequent capture of the Younger brothers and the escape of the James brothers, and the subsequent history of each of the survivors. I criticized him for putting a Yankee spin on everything (instead of recognizing that James was a southern Robin Hood :p) and he offered to let me give the next tour, but I politely declined. We both laughed. It was a simple little museum, but it was interesting, particularly because we've taken our kids to see the James family home in Kearney, MO and the site of the first daylight bank robbery (which was performed by the James gang) in Liberty, MO. We also went to a cave in SE Missouri where the James gang holed up and escaped from a posse once too. We need to head up to St. Joe sometime and see what kind of James history they have up there.

Everyone please feel free to be descriptive, what you thought about it, how it made you feel etc.

You sir have opened a can since I'm a big history dork.

I've been to Liberty Plaza in Philly, which includes Freedom Hall and the Liberty Bell. I've hiked through some jungle to see Mayan ruins in Belize. I've seen the view from Lookout Mountain and paid my respects to the grave of Bill Cody. I've climbed Ayres Rock in Australia (it holds great significance to the Aborigines). I’ve walked the trail of the first convicts to settle Sydney and I’ve toured the USS Intrepid in NYC. I’ve seen the Anasazi cliff ruins in New Mexico and walked the streets of St. Augustine FL (founded in 1530 and the oldest permanent city in N. America).

If things ever settle down I’m going to check out Greece and Italy.

i've got a cannonball i found in pilot knob, mo. in the early '70s. there was a fort and a civil war battle fought there. now it's a historic site.

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Gettysburg is probably the coolest place I have ever visited. We did the battlefield tour as part of my senior trip. Completely awe inspiring and humbling at the same time.

Thats cool, my old job used to take me to Hannibal, Mo once a week. In certain parts of town its like stepping back in time, if it werent for cars on the street you'd swear Injun Joe was right around the corner.

This one almost got me killed.
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More of Jerusalem in the old City
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Africa..

Costa Rica

Brazil

the amazon

Russia

Australia

Japan

greenland

Burchesgarten

austria


Holland


Spain


Italy

France

Canaduh

and about 13 hours north of Anchorage



I've been to all these places...in the videogames I played.

The most exotic place I visited would have to be Azeroth....

Don't know how cool but here's a few

Jesse James home he was shot in and the home that the Pinkerton agents blew up(at least what was left of it)
Pony Express Stables
Plymouth Rock
Salem Massachusetts(toured a very cool village that was set-up as it was in the witch hunt days)
NFL Hall Of Fame(I would qualify this as historical and very very cool)

Some very cool stuff here,give me a shout if you come.

Sec has old balls. Awesome find though!

I love CW battlefields, been to many.

I've been to Gettysburg twice, but not since they built the new visitor center. I'd like to see that.

Chickamauga around Chattanooga, TN, is a neat battlefield. Antietam was nice, too. And The Crater at Petersburg was cool.

I think Williamsburg is a neat place to visit. The Castillo de San Marcos, an oooooold Spanish fort in St. Augustine, FL, is interesting.

The church I got married in and used to attend in Savannah, GA, was the headquarters for Gen. Sherman during the Civil War.

Some very cool stuff so far, thanks guys.

BRC, i really love that 1st pic, if you take out the guy in shorts & put a different shirt on the old man it could totally be a scene from ancient history.

Buffalo Bills grave: Colorado, Old West town & Eissenhower's museum Salina, KS.

Oddly enough I haven't bee to Truman's old house or the library for that matter.

Geo. Washington's home at Mount Vernon is also neat-o.

A couple of summers ago, I finally got to the National Archives to see the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. It was quite a moving experience to see those actual documents.

Anchorage...was a bad mistake and I wish I wouldnt have gone.

Plane problems, landed on a different fly-in lake that wasnt on the map...which was bad. Theres five of us. We ran out of matches on the 11th day. Bob slipped on the rocks and fell off a ravine, getting a concussion and breaking his leg. We had to carry him out by making a stretcher out of limbs and an old pile of lumber we came across. The four of us took turns dragging him. THree days after his fall, we awoke to the muffled sounds of chewing. Bob had made friends with a local bear. We ran down the hillslide and left Bob there, not sure what happened to him. Skip, Coulier, Lonemyer and myself must have walked over 40 miles, or at least it seemed that way. Minutes and seconds can turn into an eternity when lost in the wilderness. Nine months later we made it out of that God-forsaken place.

I then hit the reset button on my xbox and tore that Cabelas big game hunter to pieces...

Yeah he's pointing a finger at me because I'm taking his picture and stealing his soul. After this pic was snapped he got really loud and a crowd gathered I thought ooohh chit but I gave him some money and he seemed happy and that made the crowd happy.

If you want to go way back, we visited these cliff dwellings outside Colorado Springs a couple years ago.

http://hometown.aol.com/wahl1024/images/colcd1.jpg

Another interesting place was Deadwood, South Dakota. That's a good place to get a taste of the wild west. They'd have re-enactments of shoot-outs in the streets every evening (see attached photo), and we also saw a re-enactment of the trial of Jack McCall, the man who shot "Wild Bill" Hickock.

I have lots of mosiac pieces that I found in my travels from different countries and spots.

I've been encouraged to share more descriptively.

In Pennsylvania:

Gettysburg PA Battlefields
Fredricksburg VA Battlefields
Liberty Bell
Independence Hall
Valley Forge
Cornwall Iron Furnace
Fallingwater (by far the most awesome house ever)
John Harris Mansion
The Capitol Building (Harrisburg)
Johnstown Flood National Memorial
Milton S Hershey Mansion

Wow....this would take forever....Im going to hault here for now.

Very nice, pics are always welcome.

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.

I've been to the sites in DC (White House, Congress, Smithsonian), the battlefield at Vicksburg, the Dalton hideout (used to live in Meade KS) and Bent's Old Fort in Co. I've stood on the deck of the Might Mo', looked down from an aircraft carrier deck into the Arizona. And while its not historical, exactly, I've been part of the way up Mt Fuji.

I'm no conspiracy theorist, but there is no way that Oswald was able to:

Fire a bolt-action rifle as many times as the Warren Commision says he did in a short amount of time with ANY accuracy. Snipers at Quantico couldn't duplicate this, and Oswald was never "qualified" during his time in the military.

Race down 6 flights of stairs to the cafeteria in the amount of time the Warren Commisson says he did folowing the shooting and NOT be winded. Dude was cool as a cucumber.



Anyway, I could go on forever, but there's no sense in it. People will believe what they want to believe, educated or not. It is an interesting place to visit, that's for sure....

Your right on track, i did a college paper on it (got a perfect 100%) & the amount of things that dont add up is LAUGHABLE.

As you say, it could go on & on & on.

I visited the Worlds Largest Ball of Twine in Cawker City Kansas. Isn't soon to be forgotten.

:LOL: , right outta the Griswold family playbook.

All sorts of Plantations and Civil War Forts and sites, all the monuments in DC, Smithsonian, of course I just returned from Moscow where I was in the Kremlin, St. Basil's and all that. I have seen a bunch of sites here in America, mostly Civil War stuff.

Was that right after you turned left at the sign that said "rib tips"??

Yeah, i forgot about that Boris!!! If you have some pics to show from Russia that would be killer.

Welcome Back!!!

Not to mention that the Manlicher-Carcano was a completely inaccurate piece of garbage.

I have been to a lot of places, but I think the Vatican was probably my favorite. I don't know if that counts as being historical since it is present day as well.


The most disapointing historical site was in the same city, the Colleseum. It was very small, and not in very good shape. The main floor was about the size of a basketball court. It was a lot cooler in my imagination that it was in real life.

Thank you comrade, heh

Yeah I have pictures but I will warn you in advance, they aren't very exciting (I wasn't allowed to take much more than regular street shots and the ouside of buildings). It was another world for sure, I would be glad to post a trip report here in a few days though; I think you may like it.

lots of the old school stuff in the UK. the science place in chicago. the national mall. the space place in south tejas.yellowstone. wilsons creek. hannibal mo. the train museum in st loser. lots of stuff in KC and the surrounding area.

i could be the most well traveled hillbilly ever.

Battle Fields:

-Normandy (Utah & Omaha Beach, Pegasus Bridge, Point du Hoc, and the D-Day Museum in Caen)
-Gettysburg PA
-Pearl Harbor (including tours of the AZ Memorial, USS Missouri, and Spearfish)
-Ypres, Belgium
-Korean DMZ and Freedom Village
-Antietam MD
-Fredricksburg VA
-Harpers Ferry WV
-Yorktown VA
-Fort McHenry, MD (birthplace of the National Anthem)
-Little Bighorn (just driving through and thought I would stop, just happened to be the 125th anniversay with renactments, etc.


Other interesting Places:

-Notre Dame and other stuff in Paris
-Boat tour of Amsterdam and the Rijksmuseum (featuring "the Night Watch" )
-Kuwait City
-Antwerp
-The Korean living history museum
-Baghdad, Iraq
-Devil's Tower
-Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson (grew up 3 blocks away)
-Deadwood SD
-Mesa Verde, CO
-Tombstone, AZ
-Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
-Wall Drug

Thats not surprising, had you not obeyed they would have sat you in a dimly lit room with Ivan Jirkov.

Looking forward to the report.

That would be fantastic, part of my stay did have a tour with a Sioux woman in period dress explaining various things, but the re-enactment must have been extra cool.

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? :)

None.

History sucks.

Thanks for droppin' by...

I was kidding, of course. I have a love/hate relationship with history.

Growing up in Europe, it was kind of hard to avoid historical places.

Thats cool, i would imagine growing up around so much rich history could render it hum-drum after awhile, but theres always the history of other places to the east & here in the western hemisphere.

vatican city. bastogne. buckingham palace. alamo. dc. coliseum. athens. gettysburg. madrid. dodge city. lots of others.