Chichen Itza
Topkapi Palace
Stonehenge
Grand Canyon
Yellowstone NP
New York Skyline
Eiffel Tower
Niagara Falls
British Museum
Louvre Museum
Yosemite NP
Teotihuacan
Metropolitan Mus
Sahara Desert
San Francisco
Hagia Sofia
Grand Canyon
Carlsbad Caverns
Metropolitan Museum
Stonehenge
Yellowstone NP
New York Skyline
Niagara Falls
British Museum
Yosemite NP
Ayers Rock
San Francisco
With plans to see Machu Picchu next year (hoping they get the flood damage fixed by then!)
As with all lists, this one just counts as a conversation starter. For example, when he talks about seeing places like Grand Canyon and Yosemite…did he hike down to the Colorado or stand up on top of Half Dome?
Colosseum of Rome
Fjords of Norway
St Peter’s Basilica
New York Skyline
Eiffel Tower
Sistine Chapel
Niagara Falls
British Museum
Louvre Museum
Versailles
Acropolis
Metropolitan Mus
It’s embarassing that I live in Korea yet haven’t seen any of the Asian ones.
21 altogether. Not bad considering that San Fran and NYC are the most exotic places I’ve been in the past 8 years. (IMHO, Angkor Wat, the Taj Mahal, and the Grand Canyon are the highlights.)
Grand Canyon
Acropolis
Colosseum
St. Peter’s
Sistine Chapel
Louvre
Versailles
Carlsbad Caverns
Pompeii
Chartres
Uffizi
Leaning Tower
Stonehenge
Matterhorn
New York
Eiffel Tower
British Museum
Yosemite
Hermitage
Neuschwanstein
San Francisco
I got serious issues with the list - the Leaning Tower? Really? And how’s come “San Francisco” is a whole wonder but there’s a bajillion seperate things in Rome?
And I’ll get to hopefully add these two when we go to Peru at the end of this month:
7)Machu Picchu
11) Amazon Rain Forest
I don’t get San Francisco, I guess the Golden Gate Bridge, but architecturally, I’d rather be in Shanghai or Chicago.
16, which is a higher number than I would have guessed before looking at the list
Grand Canyon
Colosseum of Rome
St. Peter’s Basilica
Sistine Chapel
Louvre Museum
Canals of Venice
Versailles
Metropolitan Mus(eum)
Uffizi Gallery
St. Mark’s Basilica
Florence Cityscape
New York Skyline
Eiffel Tower
Niagara Falls
Yosemite
San Francisco
Well, I did, dude. My husband thought I was very weird for insisting that our next big international trip be New Zealand, but the fjords were beautiful.
I was surprised how many I had never heard of. I’ve been to 19. I wonder if Dopers have collectively been to all 100. I doubt it, as a couple are in Burma and one in the middle of Indonesia (Borobudur).
Mine:
Acropolis
Easter Island
Colosseum
St. Peter’s
Sistine Chapel
Canals of Venice
Met
Temple of the Emerald Buddha
Uffizi Gallery
St. Basil’s
St. Mark’s
Florence
Kremlin
Leaning Tower of Pisa
Yellowstone
New York
Eiffel Tower
British Museum
Hermitage Museum
I think it’s a bit wonky that nearly 20% of the list is purely Italy and France, but that’s a different debate.
Hunh, according to this list, I’ve done better than I thought. 23.
Pyramids of Egypt
Stonehenge
Colosseum of Rome
Chartres Cathedral
St Peter’s Basilica
Egyptian Museum
New York Skyline
Amazon Rain Forest
Uffizi Gallery
Eiffel Tower
Sistine Chapel
Niagara Falls
Victoria Falls
Louvre Museum
Canals of Venice
Versailles
Florence Cityscape
Carlsbad Caverns
Chambord Chateau
Metropolitan Mus
Sahara Desert
Leaning Tower Pisa
San Francisco
I need to add one. I’ve been to the Temple of the Emerald Buddha.
There is an airport in Lijiang, or you can take a not-too-miserable bus ride from Kunming. I’ve popped over there a couple times for a long weekend. Lijiang is indeed a cool city, but it’s very touristy and has a real Disneyland feel to it- it can be shoulder to shoulder tourists and lots of tacky souvenirs. The surrounding countryside is cool if you are interested in minority culture. Tiger Leaping Gorge, which is a couple hours away, is well worth the hike. Shangri La is a few hours past Tiger Leaping Gorge. From what I understand, it is more of a marketing creation than anything else, and anyone looking for a real experience with Tibetan culture would be better of traveling in western Sichuan. If you do make it there, stay at Mama Naxi in Lijiang and Jane’s Guest House near Tiger Leaping Gorge.
Grand Canyon
Louvre Museum
Metropolitan Museum
Prague Old Town
New York Skyline
Eiffel Tower
Yosemite
Neuschwanstein
San Francisco
Grand Canyon (I walked from one side to the other, so, dammit, I’m counting it twice.)
Harmonious Discord, how did a flash flood stop you from seeing the Grand Canyon? I mean, I know the whole thing didn’t fill up.
Taj Mahal
Grand Canyon
Colosseum of Rome
St. Peter’s Basilica? (I’m not sure. Can’t remember if I went to it in my one trip to Rome/the Vatican City or not. This is a problem with random touristy things…)
Sistine Chapel
Louvre Museum
Canals of Venice
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Stonehenge
New York Skyline
Eiffel Tower
Niagara Falls
British Museum
San Francisco
So, 13 or 14, depending on whether I’ve actually been to St. Peter’s Basilica. Surprisingly well, considering that I just about never travel anywhere. I was helped out tremendously by the cheap generic inclusion of basically New York (the area where I grew up) and San Francisco (the area where I live now). Apart from those and the Met (basically, a free double point for having grown up near NYC), almost every other item was due to just one family trip to Europe in high school. (The big exception, of course, is the Taj Mahal, which was also a family trip. Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, and the British Museum were also on separate family trips. I apparently never go anywhere except via family trips).