# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/61 "2009-01-06T03:57:40Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > That’ll be the [Northern Isles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Isles), then! 😛 Yes! And the [Faroe Islands](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroes). I bet the stars are beautiful and there must be aurora. (Dreamy sigh.) Edited to add: other MICRONATIONS! The one that’s completely surrounded by Italy (it’s not the Vatican) – San Marino? I’d like to visit some micronations. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/62 "2009-01-06T04:13:32Z")
The Bungle Bungles ---
**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 6, 2009, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/63 "2009-01-06T05:03:04Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I live in Toronto, Ontario. From my viewpoint, Toronto, Australia, _is_ on the way to Coober Pedy. 🙂 No, no it isn’t, I’m afraid (Unless you’ve got a lot of spare time and someone else is paying for the petrol). Coober Pedy is in South Australia, Toronto is near Newcastle on the East Coast of NSW. They’re 2,000 kilometres apart and it’s a 24 hour solid drive, according to Whereis maps. Not that there’s anything wrong with wanting to visit obscure small towns, but don’t make the same mistake lots of American tourists do and underestimate the distances here. 😉 > [@](#): > > Mostly, I’d just like to take a picture of myself in front of the ‘Welcome to Toronto, population 50 000’ (or whatever) sign when visiting Toronto, Australia. There’s about 5,000 people there, according to Wiki. There aren’t actually that many large population centres in Australia besides the Capital Cities and usually two or three other “Regional Centres” in each State. Jared Diamond discusses the phenomonen in _Collapse_, interestingly, but that’s drifting off-topic. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/64 "2009-01-06T05:55:58Z")
> [@Atomic\_Mama](#): > > Rolling Frk, Miss. Drew, Miss. Panther Burn, Miss. ANYPLACE Mississippi right now! My mother is from Rolling Fork. Those aren’t even the best town names – I like Hot Coffee and D’Lo (short for Too Damn Low) myself. You should come on down for a visit. It’s 45 degrees right now at midnight, it’ll probably be 60 degrees tomorrow at midday. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/65 "2009-01-06T07:53:55Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > Siberia or Paraguay, or maybe the barbed wire museum in Kansas. Here’s a great web page to the barbed wire museum [Barbed Wire Museum](http://savvytraveler.publicradio.org/show/features/2000/20000908/barbed-wire.shtml) I don’t know what’s worse a whole museum for barbed wire OR the fact there is more than one of them Here is another barbed wire museum [Devil’s Rope Museum](http://www.barbwiremuseum.com/) in McLean, Texas I would love to go to Skagway (Alaska), Pago Pago(American Samoa), Little America (Antarctica) and Lake Titicaca (Bolivia) based soley on their names. I also would love to see the Jewish Autonomous Region in Siberia, and the place in Siberia where the, whatever it was" exploded in The Tunguska Event ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/66 "2009-01-06T08:00:17Z")
> [@Savannah](#): > > Yes! And the [Faroe Islands](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroes). I bet the stars are beautiful and there must be aurora. (Dreamy sigh.) Damn, you beat me to it **Savannah**. After reading about the Faroes (I think it was ‘The Brendan Voyage’ story), I’ve been salivating to get there, well almost. There’s lots of sheep, a few rocks, and not much else really. Idyllic! ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/67 "2009-01-06T09:43:10Z")
Another odd place in Illinois…[Olney](http://www.ci.olney.il.us/Visitors/WhiteSquirrel.htm)…home of the white squirrels. I met a girl in college from Oleny. She was quite proud of her hometown white squirrels and I always thought it would be worth going there to sit in a park and wait for a squirrel to saunter by. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/68 "2009-01-06T15:22:21Z")
> [@Jettboy](#): > > I’d love to visit India. Not sure how ‘offbeat’ that is, but compared to my current residence in North Florida, it may as well be a different planet. Believe me, it feels that way. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/69 "2009-01-06T15:41:49Z")
> [@wunderkammer](#): > > 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. It doesn’t count unless you eat the ice cream out of the bellybutton of the most overweight male crewmember. Also, the champagne must be partially regurgitated by a third party. Then there are the firehoses; don’t forget those. I might go to Parry Sound, Ontario, where they have some sort of winter festival on the harbor ice. It involves music and drinking. What could be bad? ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/70 "2009-01-06T16:03:28Z")
> [@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. Me too! I have always wanted to go to Pismo Beach, just to see why Bugs Bunny kept trying to get there… Also, the [Salton Sea](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_sea) has always intrigued me. Though I have heard from people that it is horribly polluted. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/71 "2009-01-06T17:50:20Z")
I also like islands and places at the end of the road. A few that haven’t been mentioned - Tofino, British Columbia; Tristan de Cunha; Sable Island, Nova Scotia; the Pribilof islands… Tofino is far and away the most likely. ---
**Author:** ![wunderkammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/72 "2009-01-06T17:51:27Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > It doesn’t count unless you eat the ice cream out of the bellybutton of the most overweight male crewmember. Also, the champagne must be partially regurgitated by a third party. Then there are the firehoses; don’t forget those. Pfft. I never said I’d do it _right_. What if every member of the crew is equally uninitiated? What if I go on a solo voyage with just the sea and the friendly cephalopods for company? ---
**Author:** ![incidental](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/22d042/32.png) [@incidental](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/incidental)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/73 "2009-01-06T20:18:51Z")
> [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](#): > > Dachshund Races at Germanfest in Milwaukee, WI. > Because how can you go wrong with weiner dog races, especially when one of the catagories is puppy to 1 year. > > Look at the [6th and 7th pictures](http://www.germanfest.com/gallery/2007galleries/weinerdogs/index.html), from the left. whoa, whoa, whoa. stop the thread! Are you telling me the Weiner Dog races are in Milwaukee!? My god. It’s true. Why didn’t they mention this when I interviewed there! Jeez, what a selling point! I’ve been watching the weiner dog races from afar for _years_! Thank you. I’ve been angsting over what to do with my post-graduate education for weeks. I now know what I must do. I’m sort of joking - but in all honesty, it’s a dead heat between my top picks, and Milwaukee was in the top three even before I knew about the weiner dog thing. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/74 "2009-01-06T21:06:35Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Another odd place in Illinois…[Olney](http://www.ci.olney.il.us/Visitors/WhiteSquirrel.htm)…home of the white squirrels. I wanted to see the white Squirrels. We have a bunch of black squirrels living in Chicago. They live near Fullerton and Western, go on the side streets south of Fullerton But Olney is not the only home to white squirrels Olney, IL; Marionville, MO; Kenton, TN; Brevard, NC; Exeter, Ontario all claim title to the White Squirrel Capital of The World See [White Squirrel Wars](http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/squirrels.html) ---
**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 6, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/75 "2009-01-06T21:22:34Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > My mother is from Rolling Fork. Those aren’t even the best town names – I like Hot Coffee and D’Lo (short for Too Damn Low) myself. You should come on down for a visit. It’s 45 degrees right now at midnight, it’ll probably be 60 degrees tomorrow at midday. I’ve been all over the place in Mississippi, even Tishomingo! But not Hot Coffee or D’Lo … will be heading to Oxford in late Feb. … 😃 I’m hoping to get to Natchez this trip (never been there yet) and the town that has the Presbyterian Church with the hand on the steeple pointing Heavenward … ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/76 "2009-01-06T21:40:24Z")
Anticosti island? how about Rockall (UK), and the Roacks of st. paul (Brazil)? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/77 "2009-01-06T21:40:52Z")
Darwin, MN, home of [The Biggest Ball of Twine In Minnesota](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Biggest_Ball_of_Twine_in_Minnesota). ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/78 "2009-01-06T21:44:07Z")
> [@Atomic\_Mama](#): > > I’m hoping to get to Natchez this trip (never been there yet) and the town that has the Presbyterian Church with the hand on the steeple pointing Heavenward … I was born in Natchez. It is an amazingly beautiful city. If you get a chance, go north on Hwy 61 a ways to Port Gibson, and see the Windsor Ruins. You have to drive along a winding road way out into the woods to find the columns standing there like a long-forgotten pagan temple. If you go about thirty minutes further north on 61 to Vicksburg, check out Rev. Dennis’ house, an ornate white-and-red structure topped by a double-headed eagle. He built it for his wife, Margaret, who refused to marry him until he built her a beautiful house. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/79 "2009-01-07T05:32:27Z")
> [@Wilson](#): > > I also like islands and places at the end of the road. > A few that haven’t been mentioned - Tofino, British Columbia; Tristan de Cunha; Sable Island, Nova Scotia; the Pribilof islands… > > Tofino is far and away the most likely. Tofino is a nice enough little town–we thought it was kind of redneck, in a west coast sort of way. But I wanted to see it. No, wait. I lie. \*Ucluelet \*was redneck, Tofino was whale-watching/surfing/eco-friendly tourism. Anyway, Long Beach at Pacific Rim National Park is gorgeous. It’s really beautiful, wild west coast. I’ve been there in glorious summer sunshine, and gone swimming (cold!) and seen the waves rolling in. It’s also fabulous during storm season. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/80 "2009-01-07T05:34:12Z")
I forgot–I’d like to see Savannah, Georgia some day. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832.md?page=5)