I’ve lived in Chicago for 34 years. Looking at TripAdvisor’s list of the top 10 tourist attractions in Chicago, the only one I’ve never visited is the Chicago Architecture Center. (Of #11-#20 on their list, I’ve not seen four of them.)
The Old Mill in North Little Rock, it’s 20 mins from my house. I’ve seen the photos. Never found time to visit.
Link https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g31818-d596435-Reviews-The_Old_Mill-North_Little_Rock_Arkansas.html
The Clinton Presidential Library. That’s 15 mins away too. I did drive by and looked at the building. Never went in. I’ll wait and save it for my guests that visit.
Isn’t it common to visit local attractions with guests? Help entertain them?
Sacramento’s the closest major city to me. Of the attractions there I’ve never visited the Sutter’s Fort historic site, the Governor’s Mansion, the Stanford Mansion, the Crocker Art Museum, or the California Automobile Museum.
That’s pretty much the only reason I have visited the Folsom Prison Museum. The main reason I haven’t visited the attractions above is because none of my guests were ever interested in visiting them.
San Francisco’s only about 2 hours away. If I have guests here for multiple days I’ll take them on a day trip to see the much more famous attractions there.
Maybe you’d have more fun coming to visit the actual Luxembourg.
If he could find it. Luxembourg is one of the few countries that can be measured as a fraction of the SI unit Rhode Island, mainly used to measure large icebergs and wildfires.
I’ve never been to the Harley Davidson Museum or the Mars Cheese Castle*. I’ve also never been on a single brewery tour.
I’ve been to Lauterbrunnen once in 1990 so my experience isn’t recent. I still remember it as one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been to. Seems worth it to me.
I hiked a mile to visit the triple point of Massachusetts/Connecticut/Rhode Island.
There’s not much around Boston that I haven’t done. Haven’t been to the TD Garden or the Kennedy Library, but that’s about all I can think of.
Been to plenty of obscure attractions. I walk by Grandfather’s House all the time, and I think I’ve found the location of the Brinks Robbery, although there’s nothing to mark the location.
I lived in D/FW for several years and didn’t go to the Sixth Floor Museum until I got married and moved away.
I’ve lived in Central PA for 20+ years and have never been to Re-Enactment weekend in Gettysburg, a Hershey Bears game, or seen a game at Penn State.
I grew up in Baltimore and have been living about 50 miles from DC for nearly 20 years. Been to the National Mall more times than I can count. Never have made it to the Jefferson Memorial.
I came here to say the same thing. I’ve been to the top of the two 14ers that can be driven: Pikes Peak and Mount Bluesky (formerly Mount Evans), and walked up Mount Bierstadt. I highly recommend Bluesky, and I’ll probably drive up it again, but I don’t expect to ever walk up another one, and that’s fine with me.
I’ve not been to Meow Wolf in Denver.
You can (or used to be able to) drive to the top of Mt Bross. (It makes the other side of the valley I live in/on). You will want a good 4x4, and it can only be done in late July, or early August. If you are lucky. I made it once. Tried it it two other times but backed off. Didn’t die, so that’s good.
I’ve done a LOT of off road in Colorado. It used to be very fun and exciting. At 63yo I figured out I’ve used up all my ‘luck’.
When we lived in Fort Worth, we would sometimes take visitors to the stockyards for a taste of Texas-y sights. Yee-haw!
Back in the 80s, our German relatives wanted to see the ranch where Dallas was filmed, and we did get a look at it from the road (I think it was just used for exterior shots, but whatever).
Here in the suburbs of Boston, I am sure there are things I have not seen, but honestly none that come to mind immediately. We’ve had a lot of visitors over our last 25 years here.
Here in my small (20k) town, there is one ‘tourist attraction.’ It’s a mansion that was built by one of the early residents who made a ton of money by building flour mills and grain elevators after wheat was introduced to the area. After he and his wife passed away, the family gave their house to the town, along with a foundation to fund the maintenance and upkeep of the dwelling.
It’s a wonderful museum of life in the early 1900s. It’s a must-visit for every school child in the district; my kids all toured it a couple of times. My wife worked for the district for a while and went on a tour each year.
It’s about a 20 minute walk from my house, and I’ve driven by it hundreds, if not thousands, of times.
I’ve never been inside it.
Cave of the Winds is one of local attractions near here, but I’ve never been. The issue is that all of my local friends and family have been repeatedly during their younger days, in much the same way that I had been to Carlsbad Caverns a half dozen times growing up in Southern NM. They didn’t feel the need to go again.
For that matter, when my now-wife, then college girlfriend visited me during one summer in college, I took her to Carlsbad Caverns. She enjoyed it, but said Cave of the Winds compared poorly to it, so even fewer reasons to go.
I’ll send up a flare.
My Wife loved it.
This thread is definitely my spiritual home. I never have any interest in going to any “attractions”. I’ve been to London many times, for at least a week at a time, with nothing but free time.
People will say “But don’t you want to see Buckingham Palace, or the Eye, or the Tower of London? The lines there aren’t tooo long before 6 am on Tuesdays in January…”
Nope. I want to sit and watch a couple of guys try to put up a billboard, have a pub lunch and find that artsy stationery store I saw, wander around, buy a TinTin book and take it to a park. Then go have a pint, meet some friendly locals and learn the story behind their weird nicknames. And the cheer for their favorite rugby team which is on the telly in the pub.
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More on topic, people will ask me about seeing Chicago landmarks like Navy Pier or the “Sears” Tower and I’ll say “Why?”
Then I’ll mention a Tiki bar instead, or quirky little shops like P.O.S.H. (started by flight attendants who, back in the '50s, would fill their suitcases with finds from Parisian thrift shops).
For ages, I’ve been meaning to go to the Museum of Jurassic Technology (in Culver City). Still haven’t made it.
eh… mn…