. . .that you are fairly certain nobody else on this board (or very few) have been.
I saw this video today about Electric Lady recording studio in Greenwich Village. For anyone unfamiliar, this is the studio that Jimmy Hendrix had designed and built shortly before his death. A couple of years ago, we were visiting NYC and spotted the place. My wife walked up to the entry and asked if it was possible to have a look inside, but the woman said no, because it’s still an active studio. But the manager of the studio (who is in the video) happened to be there and heard her and said, “Hey, let them in.” We got a nice tour of the place.
I’m reasonably sure that few or none of our members here have been inside. If you have, share your bragging rights.
While the King was still alive, I sat on a rocking chair on the front porch at Graceland. I’ve got a picture somewhere in a box. Boy, do I look disappointed,…Elvis had left the building.
I have no doubt that I (like most other people reading these words) have been to literally hundreds of bars, restaurants, cafes, etc., in places both small and large all over the world that no one else here has ever heard of, but that kind of seems pointless to list them given that no one else knows or cares about places like that, but, I would imagine that not many here have ever had the chance to stand front & center on the stage of San Francisco’s legendary, celebrated, even hallowed Fillmore Auditorium, a spot where some of Rock & Roll’s most iconic musicians have stood, from Jimi Hendrix to Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison, Chuck Berry as well as Duane Allman.
I have tested and inspected the CO2 fire suppression system in the generator room adjacent to the Underground War Room at SAC Headquarters, Offut AFB in Bellevue, NE. This old building and command center has since been demolished and the command center has been relocated to the new site.
I’ll be quite surprised if anybody turns out to have been to Olite Castle, the Foz de Arbayún or the Ciudad Encantada in Cuenca. OTOH any of you who’s walked the Camino Francés will have been to Eunate, pretty close to the first two.
Has anyone dug for diamonds at the diamond mine in Murfreesboro,Ark?
A famous missing person, Maud Crawford, a lawyer in Camden,Ark. Her house is still there and is still lived in. I’ve been in her bedroom. It was creepy.
Poison Springs state park. Very small. A infamous Civil war battle was fought there. Not many folks know about the park.
I worked for a company that had a contract to do some electrical upgrades at Site R, the Raven Rock nuclear bunker in Pennsylvania. Got to walk around in the tunnels and visit the gift shop. Yes, they have a gift shop in a nuclear bunker.
I have paddled various remote wilderness rivers to Moose Factory on the Arctic Ocean a few times.
One of them, the Kattawagami, requires strong white water skills as well as precise ocean navigation skills, so although there likely are Dopers with one or more of the requisite skill sets, it is very unlikely that any of them would have paddled this particular route.
Some Americans tried it about forty or so years ago, but gave up and had to be helicoptered out. A quarter of a century ago a top Canadian guiding outfit tried it and ran into bad trouble on the ocean, but since then have occasionally guided experienced paddlers down it.
Every few years I get map/info requests from people who want to paddle it, and I am aware of some others who have paddled it. Most of them stop at the ocean and have a motorized freighter canoe take them to Moose Factory or Moosonee.
All in all, in post contact times, my guess is that only a few hundred people have completed that journey, so it is unlikely that any other Dopers have done so.
I have been under Lake Ontario – not just under water in Lake Ontario, but actually underground under the lake itself.
I worked at Darlington Nuclear Generating Station during the design/build phase, so every week I’d take half a day and tour the site. One time a fellow drove me out to the end of the water intake tunnel after the tunnel was completed but prior to holes being drilled into it to flood it.
I guess it must run in the family, for my father has been under Lake Huron in the salt mine there.
On the river banks at the “8 mile” and “9 mile” section of where the Colorado River wraps around it, as well as on the shingle or ledge above the shore.
People can be seen from the high overlook above on the outside of the bend, and inflatable tour boats can be seen plying the river going past it, but I’ve never seen a soul on the ground there.
I can’t be the only one here who has been to Westerplatte, (Gadansk, Poland) where 80 years and one week ago tonight Nazi Germany attacked Poland and thus began WWII…?
As you might expect, it is a pretty sobering place, considering the ultimate impact that war has had on the history of humankind, which still reverberates today.
Let’s try a simple one. Big Lookout Mountain. A 7,000 foot peak most notable for its local prominence and view. In E. Oregon between I-84 and the Snake River canyon. Plus nearby “out of the way”* places like Connor Creek Canyon. Dropping down from the mountain to the Snake is a lot of downhill in a short distance on 4-wheelers.
I’ve been to so many remote places in the region that the difficulty of not having names or anything becomes a problem. Best one could do is describe something as so many miles east of someplace (that’s really obscure) or good old lat. and long.