Which cities are IYE, worth visiting again and again and why.The obvious, London, NY, Paris are on one side in the multi-visits category.
Others (where I have gone) include Istanbul, Philadelphia, Dubai, Lahore, Milan. All contain, culture, history and character which makes them worth multiple visits for me
One visit is enough: Athens, Atlanta, DC, Manchester, Cardiff, Rome, Geneva, Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Riyadh.
One visit: Dallas, Tampa, Columbus (OH), Cleveland, Indianapolis, Austin,Albuquerque, San Diego, Atlanta
Multi visits, Las Vegas, Chicago, San Francisco
Not even worth a visit: Phoenix, Miami, Orlando
Typos in the title. Mods, could you please fix! Thanks.
Worth it: the OP’s three, plus Vienna, Rome, Madrid, Lisbon, Porto, Portland, Seattle, Anchorage (because of what you can see in a day’s drive from there), WDC, Billings (same reason as Anchorage), Santa Fe (same reason), San Francisco. Probably others I’m forgetting.
Once is enough: Miami, NOLA, any place in Texas, Helsinki, Oslo, Frankfurt, LA, Juneau, Fairbanks, Whitehorse, Dawson Creek (BC), Quebec, Des Moines, The Hague, Warsaw, Moscow, Sofia, Bucharest, Hamburg, Pretoria, Bamako, Kampala, Cairo, Tunis, Las Vegas (once was too many).
No offense to anybody with a soft spot for those towns.
Wow, people hate Miami and I’ve been looking to visit there as a winter escape. What is wrong with it?
There’s pretty much nothing to do there, traffic is horrible during winter and most things are spread pretty far away. Rude elderly snowbirds from the Northeast and Canada.
Miami Beach is full of pretentious restaurants, bars, and nightclubs. The beaches are full of annoying posing idiots.
What are the criteria? I’d go back to Athens or Rome in a second.
One visit: Dresden, Leipzig, Olomouc
It’s admittedly subjective.
Multiple: Istanbul, Hong Kong, Esfahan, Sana’a, Beirut
Once: Bratislava, Cochin, Hargeisa, Khartoum, Samarkand
Once is too many: Bucharest, Las Vegas
One visit: Indianapolis, LA, San Antonio, New York (I know I’m in the minority here), Columbus, Cleveland, St Louis, Kansas City Kansas, Ann Arbor, Akita, Yokohama, Milwaukee.
Worth multiple visits: Denver, Madison, Tokyo, Kyoto, Aspen, Bloomington, Seattle, Boston, Philly
Once: Lund
Not even once: Malmö
Multiple visits: Chicago, New Orleans, Clarksdale (MS), Holly Springs (MS), Kyoto, Srinigar (India) …
One-time-only – I can’t think of one! I always want to go to new places and then revisit them 
Clarksdale, Mississippi - population ~18,000? Holly Springs - population ~8,000?
I must know :).
Multiple: London (UK).
How can you dis Albuquerque? Where else do you get to participate in the Breaking Bad weekend? We got it all–gangs, traffic problems, poor public transit, coyotes (okay, the coyotes are nothing compared to an idiotic city council. We need to start electing coyotes.)
Cities I’d visit again? Chicago, just to see if it’s changed in the past 40 years. New York, just because. Covington KY just because it’s weird looking and Taos NM just because it’s weird.
Not a city, but I’d visit Salt Lick KY because the Frostee Freeze has some of the best damn diner food I’ve ever had.
Really? We were there for a week year before last, and only had time to visit half of the ‘highlights’…and that’s not even considering all of the lesser known attractions.
The only city I’ve been to that I really have no desire to ever set foot in again was Phoenix, AZ. I’m sure there are many wonderful things to be experienced there, but I didn’t notice any.
I’m visiting Honolulu this week, and Waikiki definitely qualifies as “not even once”. How on earth did this place become a tourist trap? Hopefully the rest of the city is better.
Any opinions on Madrid?
My grandfather had a farm in Salt Lick. I’ve been there dozens of times. He sold it and moved to Sandy Hook in the early 80s. While visiting him was fun I never really looked at Salt Lick as a travel destination.
Multiple visits: Budapest, just really loved it and will go back and stay a week or two some day.
Would go back: Stockholm, Prague, Vancouver
Would not: Rome, Munich, Calgary, New York, Philadelphia