# Places you've been. . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 8, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879 "2019-09-08T14:38:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [September 8, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/41 "2019-09-08T22:51:20Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Antelope Canyon Been there. Quite an experience, especially if you’re a photographer. > [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Four Corners Monument Been there too. Somewhere I have a photo of me standing in all four states. I also have a photo of me at the Greenwich Observatory, with one foot in each hemisphere. I’ve also been to Èze, the medieval village high on a mountain top in the French Riviera. Stunning views of the Mediterranean. Anyone else been in the Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna? ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/42 "2019-09-08T23:02:38Z")
On top of the Pyramid of Queen Henutsen in Giza. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/43 "2019-09-08T23:15:25Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > I’ve been in the apartment building that John Dillinger lived in after he escaped from prison. I partied in the hotel room Jim Morrison lived in off Sunset Blvd. Lots of people have been there, but many might not have known. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/44 "2019-09-08T23:17:57Z")
I have been in my kitchen and none of you have so nyahh, nyahh, nyahh. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/45 "2019-09-08T23:36:06Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > I have been in my kitchen and none of you have so nyahh, nyahh, nyahh. Or, maybe, that’s what we want you to think. _hands **wolfman** a sandwich_ ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/46 "2019-09-08T23:48:20Z")
I would guess few other dopers, if any, have been: to [Winnekenni Castle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnekenni_Castle) to [the Woodman Museum](https://woodmanmuseum.org/) to the [International Cryptozoology Museum](http://cryptozoologymuseum.com/) ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/47 "2019-09-08T23:53:27Z")
The Tower Records in Tachikawa, Japan. I’ve been to many record stores in my life, and this one is still my favorite. I can’t remember the names of these next places, but while in Sicily I went to an abbey that had catacombs with the bones of hundreds of past monks mummified and laid to rest on shelves inside. Also, there was a restaurant built into a cliff, right out of the rock, that was particularly excellent. The pyroclastic flow from Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines. As well as watching repatriated remains of US Soldiers come across the DMZ at Camp Bonifas. The only Irish pub in South Korea at the Time, O’Kim’s at the top of the Westin Chosun hotel in Seoul, though now I believe its a chain throughout the peninsula, ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/48 "2019-09-08T23:55:56Z")
Inside the reactor compartment of a U.S. Navy nuclear power plant. …while it was shut down, of course. (The reactor compartment is the portion of the power plant that is within the secondary shield, and contains the shielded reactor vessel itself. While at power, this area is strictly off limits and sealed. The hatch looks like a gigantic lead cork, and the viewing windows are a deep amber color from the thickness and special stuff in the glass.) My specialty was referred to as an ELT (Engineering Laboratory Technician) and we were responsible for the plant chemistry and radiation safety. As part of the second aspect, we were the ones who set up the control point through which folks accessed the reactor compartment during shutdown. There are other Navy nukes on this board, and they surely visited the reactor compartment at least once during their qualifications. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/49 "2019-09-09T00:24:04Z")
On a FDNY fire boat. I was a Boy Scout from Putnam County and the troop was down in the city for sightseeing; the boat crew gave us a tour while moored. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/50 "2019-09-09T00:39:01Z")
French Azilum – and multiple visits there. > **[French Azilum](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/french-azilum)** > > A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution. Not only have I been to Trundle Manor but I know the owners > **[Trundle Manor: House of Oddities](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/trundle-manor)** > > House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood. And while it is no longer there I worked at Hanson’s Amusement Park at Harvey’s Lake PA. That may be a unique-to-me as well although using something gone before most of you were born … feels cheap. Now get off my lawn before I shake my cane at you again. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/51 "2019-09-09T00:39:43Z")
The [**Orton Plantation Gardens**](https://www.google.com/search?q=orton+plantation+gardens&oq=otron+plantation&aqs=chrome.3.69i57j0l5.6762j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8), outside Wilmington, North Carolina; “Firestarter,” with young Drew Barrymore, was filmed there. Boring as sin, but imagining the place being fire bombed telepathically by a small blond girl was amusing. Now permanently closed. **[Roadside America](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2208)**, Shartlesville, Pennsylvania: an indoor, 1-acre miniature village representing small-town America. Buttons to push, model trains to watch, tiny animals moving about, lighted buildings; at (the village’s) nighttime, you get, “God Bless America,” by Kate Smith blaring across the town and projected images of The Flag and the Statue of Liberty. A real hoot! Apparently, my grandfather (died 1975) was there in his late 30s/early 40s. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/52 "2019-09-09T00:48:15Z")
The top floor of [the Old Post Office](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Post_Office_(Washington,_D.C.)). Before Trump took control of the building, the [GSA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Services_Administration) used the top floor for storage; access was via an extremely slow hydraulic elevator which only government employees could use. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/53 "2019-09-09T00:52:24Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > I’ve been inside a MMIII missile silo. The one in South Dakota? Been there. I liked the sign on the door to the control room that said “Delivery in under 30 minutes, guaranteed.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/54 "2019-09-09T01:03:08Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > I swam into the ice caves of Pictured Rock National Lakeshore with my daughter. Not kayaked or canoed, or jetskied, but swam to them, thanks to unusually warm water and ambition. We took off from the nearby beach and hugged the cliff until we got there and had an amazing time. I know we’re not the only ones who swam there but there’s probably not many of us. > > [Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (U.S. National Park Service)](https://www.nps.gov/piro/index.htm) I paddled there in the 80s, but I’ve not swum there. In fact, one of my paddling club’s T-shirts read _ **I’d rather die than swim!** _ ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/55 "2019-09-09T01:10:04Z")
Fun place: I’ve been all over Newfoundland, and one of my favorite places was the [Elliston puffin colony](https://www.townofelliston.ca/5ttd/puffins.html). It’s windy and some of trails are narrow; don’t fall off one of the cliffs. Not so fun place: the Navy’s SERE school in Brunswick, Maine. Thankfully I was an employee visiting from headquarters and not a participant. That would have been even less fun. Interesting place: Davis-Besse nuclear plant. Back when I visited nuclear powered plants were considered the wave of the future and I remember being impressed with how clean the plant was. Fast-forward to now, and I was kind of surprised to learn that Ohio has decided to subsidize it and the Perry plant to keep them open longer. I’ve also been on the USS Theodore Roosevelt as a guest for a day trip and toured the USS Iowa shortly before[the accident](https://www.military.com/video/uss-iowa-gun-turret-explosion-1989). ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/56 "2019-09-09T01:27:47Z")
I’ve been to the very top of the [Dome](https://media.glassdoor.com/l/20/2a/2b/91/the-hopkins-dome.jpg) at Johns Hopkins Hospital. It’s where you get to go when you complete your advanced internal medicine clerkship as a student. Or at least it was, back in the early 1980’s. Lovely view! Rather breezy but sunny the day I was up there. ---
**Author:** ![KCB615](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@KCB615](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KCB615)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/57 "2019-09-09T02:22:20Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > The roof of the Green Building at MIT. Me too. And 5 other MIT buildings. It’ll be 6 others when the new high rise in in Kendall Square (the really new one, not the the two are already structurally complete - I’ve been on both of those, too) gets topped off. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/58 "2019-09-09T03:40:56Z")
[Española Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espa%C3%B1ola_Island), the uninhabited southernmost island in the Galapagos. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/59 "2019-09-09T06:27:42Z")
Interesting thread. Thanks **Chefguy**. I haven’t been to any places upthread, except For these: I’ve been to San Marino, Four Corners, and Èze. And Srebrenik Fortress in Bosnia and Herzegovina, I drove past it but did not go to it. > [@susan](#): > > San Marino. > [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > [4-corners monument](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Corners_Monument) > [@panache45](#): > > Èze > [@DinoR](#): > > [Srebrenik Fortress](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Srebrenik+Fortress/@44.703591,18.531354,509m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x6ca63b32603b90a8!8m2!3d44.7033769!4d18.5311635?hl=en-US) in Bosnia and Herzogovina. I’ve been to Tawitawi Island in the Philippines. It’s nearly the southernmost point in the Philippines. I’ve been through the Hum Border Crossing, in Hum, Bosnia and Herzegovina. I’ve been to all 50 states + DC (USA). I’ve been to Hell, Norway in the winter — Hell was frozen over. I’ve been in the USMC caves near Trondheim, Norway, the caves that are part of the [Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Corps_Prepositioning_Program-Norway). I’ve been to Campo Pachico, Baja California Sur, Mexico ([gMap](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Campo+Pachico,+Baja+California+Sur,+Mexico/@26.883316,-113.0921326,11z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x81356587765a4fbb:0xa161b7fdf1323cc4)), on the San Ignacio Lagoon for whale watching, and have been less than 1 foot from gray whales there (I did not quite touch one). I’ve been to the Misión San Javier near Loreto, Baja, Mexico. I’ve driven the entire length of the Baja peninsula round trip, twice, from San Diego CA USA down to Cabo San Lucas and back. In Utah, I’ve driven the 90 miles on the old Central Pacific Railroad Grade, on the Transcontinental Railroad Backcountry Byway, from the Golden Spike National Historic Site over to Lucin UT. > **[BLMUtahTranscontinentalRailroadMap.pdf](https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/uploads/BLMUtahTranscontinentalRailroadMap.pdf)** > > 4.15 MB In Iowa I’ve walked out to the plane crash site in the cornfield where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper died on The Day The Music Died (2/3/1959). From Battery Spencer in the Marin Headlands north of San Francisco I hiked and climbed south and east, down to walk under the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/60 "2019-09-09T07:02:04Z")
Let’s see. In Venezuela: - the hotel near Angel Falls, and a boat trip up to the Isla de Las Orquideas. - the teleferico ride up from Merida to Pico Espejo. - La Virgen de La Paz statue - we walked to the top! - In Trujillo. - the sand dunes at Coro - various places around Merida including Los Chorros de Milla park and the village of Jaji outside of it. The Spluga (or Splugen) Pass between Italy and Switzerland. La Specola Museum in Florence. The Richard F Caris Mirror Lab at the University of Arizona. Also the Zoology and Herpetology collections at the U of A. Casa Malpais in Springerville, Arizona. The Garst Museum in Greenville, Ohio. Excellent little local museum with a large section on Annie Oakley. I’ve also been to the Golden Spike Museum! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879.md?page=4)