Yes! And the Faroe Islands. 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.
The Bungle Bungles
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. 
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.
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.
Here’s a great web page to the barbed wire museum
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 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
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!
Another odd place in Illinois…Olney…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.
Believe me, it feels that way.
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?
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 has always intrigued me. Though I have heard from people that it is horribly polluted.
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.
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?
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.
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
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 …
Anticosti island? how about Rockall (UK), and the Roacks of st. paul (Brazil)?
Darwin, MN, home of The Biggest Ball of Twine In Minnesota.
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.
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.
I forgot–I’d like to see Savannah, Georgia some day. 