I’ve always wanted 2 747s loaded with high explosive and rigged for pilotless flying. Then throw in a few tons of stuff that burns in pretty colors. They idea is to have a head on mid air collision result in the biggest single fireworks display ever.
Amber with insect inside from prehistoric times…
Just south of Taintville.
I’d like a coat rack made by attaching half a dozen glass doorknobs to a board.
Hm, not sure how offbeat. Ultimate item? I would need a significant influx of money, but Winnie’s private yacht for a start 
A couple years back Lindburgh’s honeymoon Elco yacht the Mouette was on the market for under a quarter million. [I really like the old style yachts, I would love a early to mid thirties 50+ foot flattop]
More reasonable? I love trips, and there are some serious luxury train rides - a scotch afficianado one through Scotland, the Trans Siberian one, Tsar class of course =), and a couple in Australia [one is north/south, the other is east/west] and a real long one headed north from South Africa. Cunard has around the hemisphere Atlantic and Pacific [no longer do they have a no shit around the entire globe both Atlantic and Pacific with a transit through the Panama Canal sob] and doing Atlantic crossings both ways is very do-able, and with some schedule tweaking I would avoid needing to cross the atlantic in either direction on a plane! And I have mentioned I would love to go to Cuba as well =)
I got something like that for Christmas.
I want a Mitsubishi MU-2 like this one. Can I perhaps borrow a million or so dollars?
Just one more time.
Horseback,flying gallop,bareback… Hand buried in the mane,war bridle on the horse,… I’m 16 again,hair flying,barefoot… Free,one more time…
When I posted this OP, I was also thinking about a couple of lines from Toni Morrison’s first novel, The Bluest Eye. The narrator says that what she really wants for her birthday is to sit in the kitchen with a lap full of lilacs while her grandfather plays the violin, just for her.
Or something like that.
Maybe this sitefor yurt rentals in some of the Washington State Parks. These may be more “yurt” in name but more of a platform tent.
I have stayed in many Tibetan yurts (made from yak felt but that was a while ago in my backpacking days.
Me, I thought I wanted a real brick oven in my backyard but after experimenting this week I’m past that.
The BM has been free to public entry since 1758, so all you need is airfare and accomodations 
(Most museums in London are free; the extortionate stuff is stuff like the Tower, Westminster Abbey, &c).
What is fun is fooling around in the British Museum at night after all of the tourists have gone.
This information, makes me swoon!
How incredibly civilized!
I’ll be thinking about it all day! Thanks for the info!
Powered paragliders. I’ve had the opportunity to play around with one (only on the ground though :() They are awesome!
There’s a store near me that had ≈ 3’ tall concrete T-rexes; different shades too.
For experience: I want to go thru the Kumba Icefall to Camp 1 at Everest. No desire to go to the top; people die there.
For item: I think I’m gonna go with the powered paraglider.
I’ve done this, and while fun, indoor skydiving is nothing like a zero G experience. The opposite, more likely. Do you know the feeling of sticking out your hand of a driving car and feeling how the wind strongly pushes against your hand, blowing it upwards? Multiply that feeling by five and over your entire body. Also, you’ll be wearing a heavy suit with flaps everywhere for the wind to grip. It is more like leaning in against a very, very heavy gale. Not at all like being weightless. Still fun though.
Me, I want to swim in water with luminescent algae. But it can’t be planned, as the algae can’t be predicted to appear somewhere at a given time.
I’d also like an opportunity to try out some more nice hallucogenic drugs, in good company who are willing to babysit me. I could just visit a rave party and buy some mdma, but I hate loud music, crowds, and I don’t trust the makers and sellers and don’t want to support an illegal industry.
I’d also like more good beauty treatments. Last week I visited a permanent-make-up artist and got an eyebrow tattoo and lip line tattoo that I’m very happy with. Very natural looking, but a definite improvement.
While I was lying in her chair, she saw some age spots and burst cappillaries on my cheek and the back of my hands and offered to laser them away for me. She had aquired a new and chic laser machine to remove bad tattoos made by other salons, and she was eager to use it.
Lasering my spots away took no more then five minutes of slight discomfort, about twenty extra bucks, and boy does it make a difference. That woman is a wizard. I’d like to meet other wizards like her, because I’m vain and enjoy being made prettier.
I serendipitously ended up swimming with luminescent jellyfish during a night dive off the coast of Bonaire. Hey, isn’t that a Dutch island? You should go!
On the most basic level, it’s the same. On the entire experience level, it’s a whole different world.
I started in the modern firearm world, and wandered into the 18th century reenacting world. They really are different experiences all together, whether firing live (lead balls) or blanks. The experience of a jet of flame a foot high and 6 inches from your face, the gentle push of the recoil vs the sharp slam of a modern rifle, the delayed ignition of the powder in the pan followed by the ignition of the main charge vs the instantaneous bang of a modern cartridge… I could wax on all day like flatlined , but I’ll stop here and I’ll also extend an invite if you find yourself in the New Hampshire area.
Ooh, I bet my husband would love to meet up with you to have a try. He has been talking of getting blackpowder equipment to make a change from modern for hunting Bambi. He has actually been fascinated by blackpowder for a while but hasn’t done anything about it yet.
A scale model of a Minneapolis-Moline UDLX tractor.
My son saw it in a book of tractors, and we both this it’s one of our favorites. There are models out there, but they’re kept outrageously expensive by collectors.
Here’s the slow-motion video of a flintlock mechanism firing that I referred to. Just love to watch this. Unfortunately, New Hampshire is very much out of my usual sphere 
Wow, that’s a cool tracktor Sicks Ate.
I want a Boehm Sterling engine. They are beautiful…