You can go to any point in history.
You mean, where and WHEN would you go?
And does “history” include the future?
I would think Christ’s death would be a popular site. If you don’t believe, to prove a point and if you do believe, to prove a point.
Interpreting “history” as “past only,” I’m sightseeing dinosaurs. If not, I anticipate much longer lifespans being available in a few hundred years, so call it 2450 – far enough forward for lots of technological innovation even given a few disasters, not so far that I’d be incapable of learning the languages or fitting into society.
I read a fairly well done sci-fi book with the premise that a time-viewer had been invented, the skies over the site of the Crucifixion are described as darkening because so many billions if not trillions of future people are viewing events that the daylight itself is being drawn off through the atom-sized wormholes used to view the past.
Although that’s something I’ve never quite understood, quite a few time-travel books focus on Christ’s death, surely it would be more interesting to have a look in his tomb to see exactly what happened three days later?
And where would I go? The future, how far in the future is the question though.
10 years into the future where I’d get a sports almanac and the lotto numbers for the past decade
The past where I can ask ancestors; “what were you thinking!”
I’d like some good family stories
Also I want to know what my grandmothers first daughters fathers name is! My mother and her sisters were all too closed mouth. Guess it was taboo and poo poo!
An easy question to answer, France about 16000 BC.
Of course I would need an invisible force field surrounding my body that would keep me invulnerable…
As must as I’d like to think I would be fascinated by what I saw, I also believe I would be in for a horrible, horrible shock.
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There’s the question of what I could personally do or accomplish in the past, as opposed to what I wish I could do. Plunk me down into a random spot in history where I don’t know the language or the customs, and I could end up as a slave or dead. I’m also not a historian, an anthropologist, etc.
Taken for granted that that’s somehow not a problem, I second the execution (/resurrection?) of Jesus, and the Cretaceous. Other things might include getting now-lost copies of major Greek writers’ works. Seeing if the Thera eruption coincided with a migration of pre-Hebrew peoples. Finding out at what point in evolution genus Homo developed language.
P.S., I might also resurrect some extinct animals. The Falkland’s Fox might make a good pet for example.
I’d like to go back not quite a hundred years, to the youth of my maternal grandparents. I’d like to see them young, when they were courting. December 24, 1923, when my grandmother was nineteen, attending her first church service with my grandfather, would be a good spot.
“May you live in interesting times” is widely held to be a curse. Why choose it?
I’d set it on “Random” time and place, in order to see what life was really like, absent the embroidery of best-selling historians.
Thereby belying your user name, since the maximum was about 8,000 years before that. 
How about going back to eastern Washington about 14,000 years ago and get some footage of the Missoula Floods. Now that would be the ultimate disaster movie.
If Trump win I would go ahead 40 years so I know I will be dead ! I don’t want to see how he fucked up the earth !
What do you imagine money would buy you that is more compelling than a time machine?
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To kill the first person to put raisins in a cookie.
I would go forward to the point in time about 1 week after we’ve learned we’re not alone in the universe. Then I’d make a 50-year follow-up.
If I can only go (and return) once, then take me to the 50-year follow-up point.
To go to the time and places of my early childhood…the late 70s.
I’d love to walk the places that don’t even exist anymore:
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The most pressing thing would be to watch the great pyramid of Cheops get built. Same for the trilithons of Stonehenge. For a more relaxed fun, i’d like to spend a few months in Hollywood in the 50’s just relaxing and living off my sports winnings. Maybe spend some time with certain stars before they got big so I could be one of the rat pack later on. Or give a helping hand to that nice young Mr. Hefner who wants to be a publisher…
In time to prevent Stalin. Everybody else can get in line for Hitler.
Also to safekeep Trotsky and arrange for him to succeed Lenin (if Lenin can’t be saved).
If nothing else, it would keep North Korea from adopting a Stalinist regime.
Then to Washington DC and Ford Theater - or a few days before, and take out the whole lot.
Then to go back to no later than 1830 and abolish slavery in the US before it got so large.
Maybe take out the Cotton Gin* before it is invented and bypass the whole nightmare.
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- the Cotton Gin is what made slavery so damned profitable. Before it, cotton was “carded” - a good worker could produce a pound or two a day. Cotton was not a profitable business.
The gin could crank out hundreds of pounds a day - all of a sudden, massive cotton plantations made TONS of sense - but cotton needed lots of care. Very labor-intensive. The need for cheap labor made slaving a lucrative business.
- the Cotton Gin is what made slavery so damned profitable. Before it, cotton was “carded” - a good worker could produce a pound or two a day. Cotton was not a profitable business.
I’d go back in time and kill myself before I got a time machine. I love a good paradox that destroys the space/time continuum.