What Cool Historical Sites Have You Been To??? - Page 5

**Easy 6** · 02-12-2007, 01:53 PM

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???

Monty · 02-12-2007, 03:49 PM

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.

splatbass · 02-12-2007, 03:49 PM

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.

BucEyedPea · 02-12-2007, 03:52 PM

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

***

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

****

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

***

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

***

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

****

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

***

Brooklyn Bridge
Empire State Building
Statue of Liberty
WTC
United Nations

***

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

***

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

***

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

***

Grimaldi Castle Monte Carlo
Anne Frank House- Amsterdam

***

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

Monty · 02-12-2007, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by scott free

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.

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.

"Bob" Dobbs · 02-12-2007, 03:56 PM

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

Jenson71 · 02-12-2007, 04:01 PM

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

**BigRedChief** · 02-12-2007, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

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

***

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

****

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

***

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

***

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

****

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

***

Brooklyn Bridge
Empire State Building
Statue of Liberty
WTC
United Nations

***

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

***

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

***

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

***

Grimaldi Castle Monte Carlo
Anne Frank House- Amsterdam

***

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

Cool another "seasoned" traveler

**Easy 6** · 02-12-2007, 04:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

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

***

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

****

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

***

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

***

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

****

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

***

Brooklyn Bridge
Empire State Building
Statue of Liberty
WTC
United Nations

***

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

***

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

***

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

***

Grimaldi Castle Monte Carlo
Anne Frank House- Amsterdam

***

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

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.

Frazod · 02-12-2007, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by booyaf2

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

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.

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.

**Easy 6** · 02-12-2007, 04:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Monty

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.

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.

**Easy 6** · 02-12-2007, 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frazod

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.

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.

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**gblowfish** · 02-12-2007, 04:11 PM

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.

BucEyedPea · 02-12-2007, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by scott free

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.

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.

BucEyedPea · 02-12-2007, 04:16 PM

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.

38yrsfan · 02-12-2007, 05:10 PM

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?

02-12-2007, 01:53 PM
Easy 6 pie is never free Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: the drivers seat Casino cash: $3717775	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???
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02-12-2007, 03:49 PM	#61
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splatbass MVP Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Honolulu, HI Casino cash: $6680560	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.
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02-12-2007, 03:52 PM	#63
BucEyedPea Gimme My Berries Back! Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: None of your business Casino cash: $3459963	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 * Badlands National Park Mount Rushmore National Park & Memorial Redwood National Forest Golden Gate Bridge Park Presido of San Franciso 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 * 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 * New Orleans Jazz Historical Park- parts of; Vieux Carre, Canal Street, Lafayette Square Jean Lafitte Historical Park- parts of Preservation Hall Lincoln Memorial Jefferson Memorial Capital - Congress and Senate Buildings White House Washington Monument * Brooklyn Bridge Empire State Building Statue of Liberty WTC United Nations * 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 * 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 * 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 * Grimaldi Castle Monte Carlo Anne Frank House- Amsterdam *** 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
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02-12-2007, 04:01 PM	#66
Jenson71 fides quaerens intellectum Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: United States Casino cash: $8330900	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
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02-12-2007, 04:11 PM	#72
gblowfish Be Kind To Your Pets Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Glorious Independence, MO Casino cash: $17666178 VARSITY	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.
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02-12-2007, 04:16 PM	#74
BucEyedPea Gimme My Berries Back! Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: None of your business Casino cash: $3459963	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.
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02-12-2007, 05:10 PM	#75
38yrsfan Veteran Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: In many minds, rent free. Casino cash: $9945667	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? __________________ During the 75 season the Chiefs mascot Warpaint would circle the field after a touchdown. This prompted a great quote from long ago Raiders coach John Madden after the 42-10 loss at Arrowhead. "We couldn't beat the Chiefs, but we damn near killed their horse."
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