# Offbeat Places You'd Like To Visit **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 4, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832 "2009-01-04T18:02:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/21 "2009-01-05T04:15:41Z")
On second listen, which I have just done, I’m quite sure Zimmy says Rastapula. So, who knows what he was thinking of? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/22 "2009-01-05T04:33:37Z")
Must be somewhere in the Caribbean. I’m game if you are! ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/23 "2009-01-05T04:45:17Z")
> [@hellpaso](#): > > Nag’s Head, N.C. Only for the name. When I was a kid, we spent every summer at Nag’s Head, then it was a really quiet beach town, but now it is an overdeveloped beach town. ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/24 "2009-01-05T05:01:09Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > When I was in college I used to follow the Vladivostok daily online. It had a touching mix of small town news, abject horror, and charmingly failed translation. Since then I’ve wanted to visit. > > Well, I might get my chance soon! It’s really not too crazy far. Just before moving here, I discovered online that there are several ferries leaving monthly for Vladivostok. After learning this, my mind was made up. I _will_ go to Vladivostok one of these days. The fact that every Russian friend I’ve ever made has urgently pleaded me to reconsider in favor of Moscow or some other part of civilization has done little to deter me. Also, near my town, in Nagano, is the town of Shiojiri. I haven’t been yet, but I simply cannot pass up the opportunity to go somewhere with the name “Salt Butt.” Since the best way to get there is via the Ooito Line, I’ll get to kill two birds with one stone as another travel goal of mine is to ride the Ooito Line from it’s beginning here in Itoigawa to its end in Matsumoto. Why? Because the trains are absolutely adorable and only one car long. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/25 "2009-01-05T05:21:02Z")
Nuuk, Greenland. Or any settlement in Greenland. Why? Because I know next to nothing about Greenland, you don’t hear much about it, yet it’s that big landmass taking up half the Mercator projection, so I want to see what there is(n’t) there. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/26 "2009-01-05T05:22:42Z")
For whatever reason, I have an attraction to “extremely directional” places like: The southern tip of Tierra del Fuego The northernmost tip of the little peninsula NE of Barrow, Alaska The southernmost point in Key West, FL. The South Pole. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/27 "2009-01-05T05:22:49Z")
Antarctica, where Shackleton was. Tibet, if there’s any “unreconstructed” Tibet anywhere. Leh. I heard that was THAT kind of place. I almost got there in 1989, but Tienamin Square got in the way. Rolling Frk, Miss. Drew, Miss. Panther Burn, Miss. ANYPLACE Mississippi right now! It’s pretty cold in Alaska right now. S/B 20 below later tonight, in Anchorage. Fairbanks is worse. ---
**Author:** ![wunderkammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/28 "2009-01-05T06:20:28Z")
0° Lat. 0° Long. I want to park a ship there and sit down with a lounge chair and an umbrella as precisely on the meridians as a GPS will tell me. Then I will celebrate becoming a [Royal Diamond Shellback](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-crossing_ceremony) with ice cream or champagne or something. Years later, I’ll do the same thing in the extreme Pacific, except I might enjoy hopping back and forth between Tuesday and Monday. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/29 "2009-01-05T08:10:08Z")
I’d like to ride the [Hejaz Railway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hejaz_Railway) from Damascus to Medina (on camelback or in 4WD where the railway line no longer runs). I’d also like to visit the remaining British [del]Colonial Possessions[/del] Overseas Territories- some of them are pretty remote. Actually, I’d like to visit everywhere. That’s a much easier way of putting it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/30 "2009-01-05T08:50:20Z")
> [@seodoa](#): > > Just before moving here, I discovered online that there are several ferries leaving monthly for Vladivostok. After learning this, my mind was made up. I _will_ go to Vladivostok one of these days. The fact that every Russian friend I’ve ever made has urgently pleaded me to reconsider in favor of Moscow or some other part of civilization has done little to deter me. I’m pretty sure I’m going to take the railroad to Europe when I’m done here. I can’t figure out how to do both Vladivostok and Mongolia, but I bet I can figure something out. I’ve already made it to my other “randomly dreamed of travel destination”, Mali. Biggest adventure of my life. I really hope to get to Ethiopia one day. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/31 "2009-01-05T11:49:00Z")
Tuva. Like Richard Feineman I am fascinated by visiting a city with no regular vowels in the name 😃 Ever since we got a copy of Tuva or Bust mrAru and I have been fascinated by the idea of visiting … ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/32 "2009-01-05T11:58:38Z")
> [@Savannah](#): > > I want to go to Scilly and the Channel Islands and the really northern Scottish islands that are really… um, north. That’ll be the [Northern Isles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Isles), then! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/33 "2009-01-05T12:25:20Z")
> [@Atomic\_Mama](#): > > Antarctica, where Shackleton was. On a similar note, I would like to pay my respects to Shackleton, and would travel to **South Georgia Island** off of Antartica just to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckler_of_Swashing)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/34 "2009-01-05T13:17:51Z")
[Kelvedon Hatch Nuclear Bunker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvedon_Hatch_Secret_Nuclear_Bunker). Just 'coz as a kid I had a deeply embedded fear that we were all going to die horribly in a catastrophic nuclear armageddon - except those of us who had bunkers! Or access to bunkers! I so badly wanted a bunker. I met a kid in my art class who had previously lived in London, had visited Kelvedon Hatch and told me all about it - I resolved to go there one day. There are heaps of leftover Cold War bunkers all over the place, reheated for tourism purposes and there is nothing really that special about this one except that it’s the one I resolved to visit. Plus, its website says you can hire the bunker out for private parties. I want to have a party in a freaking nuclear bunker, dammit. That shit would go off like a frog in a sock. ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/35 "2009-01-05T18:05:04Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > [Centralia, PA](http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm), the ‘ghost town’ where a coal mine fire has been burning underground since 1962. So creepy the town in _Silent Hill_ was based on it. Been there. It IS creepy…streets that lead to nowhere, driveways and sidewalks without houses. Creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/36 "2009-01-05T18:36:53Z")
I want to see the Isle of Lewis in - I believe, the Western Isles - of Scotland. I’d like to see the Callanish stones on the summer solstice. I just finished reading The Island Harp, a pretty good book about the clearances and the potato famine there in the mid 1800s. I previously read The Dawn Stag and books in that trilogy. Then I’d like to go and see the Orkney Isles, which I read about in The Crow Road and The Once and Future King. I know they have standing stones there too but I don’t recall the names. Then I want to go and see Nine Stanes - also in Scotland -because I like the pictures I’ve seen of it. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/37 "2009-01-05T18:47:45Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > [Kentucky Bend](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Bend), because it’s Kentucky, but you have to leave the rest of Kentucky to get to it, even by air or water. I want to see [Kaskaskia, IL](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaskaskia,_IL), for similar reasons. I think **Cecil** even mentioned it in a column. [It’s cursed, too!](http://www.prairieghosts.com/kaskaskia.html) Centralia was not far from where I grew up, and I saw it before and after it was abandoned. It wasn’t much to speak of even before it became a ghost town, really. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/38 "2009-01-05T18:48:24Z")
Machu Picchu [Here’s a 3d flash you can use to view the place.](http://www.destination360.com/south-america/peru/peru.php) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/39 "2009-01-05T19:22:46Z")
Harer, Ethiopia - just to try fresh qat ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/40 "2009-01-05T19:23:12Z")
I’ve always wanted to see [The Winchester Mystery House](http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832.md?page=3)