# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/121 "2019-09-10T20:32:43Z")
I’ve been on a nuclear submarine under the polar ice cap at the North Pole. We broke through the ice and surfaced numerous times as well (but not right at the North Pole itself, because the ice was too thick at that point). ---
**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 10, 2019, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/122 "2019-09-10T20:58:27Z")
> [@Pabitel](#): > > I’ve curled at the Border Curling Club in Stanstead, Quebec. > > Few people, even in Stanstead, can say that. > > Or were you looking for something more profound? Nope, just places you think are unlikely to have been visited by the rest of us. ---
**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 10, 2019, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/123 "2019-09-10T21:33:03Z")
> [@robby](#): > > I’ve been on a nuclear submarine under the polar ice cap at the North Pole. We broke through the ice and surfaced numerous times as well (but not right at the North Pole itself, because the ice was too thick at that point). Cool. Straight out of _Ice Station Zebra_. ---
**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 10, 2019, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/124 "2019-09-10T22:26:41Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > Anyone else been to Mercury, Nevada - base of operations for the Nevada Test Site? No but I’ve been to both Mars ¶ and Uranus (MO). Uranus is actually a great place ----- as the locals say “Everyone has big fun in Uranus”. 😉 ---
**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 10, 2019, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/125 "2019-09-10T22:33:39Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > No but I’ve been to both Mars ¶ and Uranus (MO). Uranus is actually a great place ----- as the locals say “Everyone has big fun in Uranus”. 😉 Ha! I’ve been to Boring, OR, which is not far from here. Their sister city is Dull, Scotland. ---
**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 10, 2019, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/126 "2019-09-10T22:42:44Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I regularly have worked in the behind-the-scenes collection areas and exhibition fabrication shops at the Smithsonian and the American Museum of Natural History. I work mainly in the bird collections (which at the American Museum include one million specimens and take up five floors on one wing) but have also visited the paleontology collection at the National Museum with its shelves stacked with Triceratops skulls. I visited the [Garber Facility](https://airandspace.si.edu/about/history/paul-e-garber-facility) back in the day when it was still open (now replaced by the [Udvar-Hazy Center](https://airandspace.si.edu/about/history/udvar-hazy-center)). I’ve often thought since then that what’s back in the storage/restoration facilities and collection areas of the Smithsonian buildings is at least as interesting as what’s on exhibit (if not more so). ---
**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 10, 2019, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/127 "2019-09-10T22:48:57Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > I’ve been in the cockpit of a P-51 Mustang piloted by [Bob Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hoover), the WW II ace and test/stunt pilot, while we did aerobatics, including snap rolls 50 feet over Lake Butte des Morts, WI. Cool! Was it the famous Yellow one? > [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Has anyone else gone to the top of Mount Pryor in Montana to see the wild mustangs? I can see wild mustangs from my couch. 😃 > [@Enginerd](#): > > Anyone else been to Mercury, Nevada - base of operations for the Nevada Test Site? I changed a flat tire on a motorcycle trailer on the exit ramp. Does that count? ---
**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 10, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/128 "2019-09-10T22:54:58Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Ha! I’ve been to Boring, OR, which is not far from here. Their sister city is Dull, Scotland. Cool. I’ve been to Yeehaw Junction FL, and Braggadocio MO. Other Dopers likely have, too, especially Yeehaw Junction which is on a beaten path between Miami and Orlando. I haven’t been to Boring OR. Not yet. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/129 "2019-09-10T23:08:27Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Cool. I’ve been to Yeehaw Junction FL, and Braggadocio MO. > > Other Dopers likely have, too, especially Yeehaw Junction which is on a beaten path between Miami and Orlando. > > I haven’t been to Boring OR. Not yet. I’ve been to Yeehaw Junction several times as in the 80s my mom’s boyfriend’s law firm owned a ranch near there - it had a diner that was one of the few places I knew that served frogs legs so whenever we went there I insisted on indulging for the novelty factor even though it wasn’t _that_ much better than chicken for a higher price and smaller portions. ---
**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 10, 2019, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/130 "2019-09-10T23:39:52Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Cool! Was it the famous Yellow one? Indeed it was. I got pics with him in it, and he gave my dad his hat! ---
**Author:** ![Allthegood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Allthegood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allthegood)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/131 "2019-09-11T02:52:28Z")
I have walked the perimeter of the caldera at La Gomera, Canary Islands, above the cloud line. I have visited Eefde, Giethoorn, Gorssel, and Hoge Veluwe National Park (featuring the fabulous Kröller-Müller Museum) in the Netherlands. And of course, I’ve been in my kitchen, but so has AHunter3, so that’s right out. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/132 "2019-09-11T03:19:25Z")
I’ve been in Boring, Tangent, and Drain, Oregon. Road trip! ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/133 "2019-09-11T04:21:53Z")
> [@LH75](#): > > 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’ve been in the [Diefenbunker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFS_Carp), built near Ottawa as a government emergency command center in case of WWIII. I was stationed there for 6 months in the early 70s, and have been back several times since it became a museum, for a tour, an “escape room” game, and a megagame exercise. > [@Chefguy](#): > > In the early 2000s, we drove our RV to [Inuvik, NWT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuvik) via the Dempster Highway. Inuvik is located on the McKenzie River delta, about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. I believe it’s the farthest north that one can drive in Canada. I’ve never been there, but my cousin lived there for a number of years. She worked for the NWT government, and her husband was a teacher. They moved to the big city of Yellowknife (his home town) when their kids got older. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/134 "2019-09-11T06:10:13Z")
Probably the most remote place I’ve been is Mt. Hibok-hibok, an active volcano in Camiguin island in the Philippines. With friends I climbed around 4/5ths of the way to the summit. I’ve been in the building that was once the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island, where Nellie Bly went undercover to investigate brutality and neglect. It was restored and is now the lobby of an apartment building: [The Octagon (Roosevelt Island) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Octagon_(Roosevelt_Island)) I’ve also been inside the interpreters’ booth at the United Nations; it’s off-limits to the public, but an interpreter brought me inside. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/135 "2019-09-11T11:12:49Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > 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.” 😃 And it’s painted to resemble a Domino’s pizza box. Been there. 😃 Q for Chefguy about Dalton highway: Can you drive it in a regular (newish) pickup truck? Can you do it with a normal gas tank? I’ve always read that the truckers on that road are “less than friendly” to wandering tourists. Did you notice anything like that? It’s on my bucket list. ---
**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 11, 2019, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/136 "2019-09-11T12:00:04Z")
I’m probably not the only person who was inside the original Pennsylvania Station in NYC, while it was being demolished. This was back in the mid-1960s. How about the location where lava from Kilauea Volcano crashes into the ocean? You had to carefully walk over very precarious and dangerous “ruins,” way past the sign prohibiting further access. Great photo op! I was also at the “Wiener Riesenrad”, the ferris wheel in Vienna that was featured in _The Third Man._ Also, the doorway in which Orson Welles was first standing. ---
**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 11, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/137 "2019-09-11T12:31:28Z")
I’ve been to Point Roberts, WA I still need to get to Angle Inlet and the Kentucky Bend. Also that little bit of WI that can only be reached by road via MN highway 23. ---
**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 11, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/138 "2019-09-11T12:52:19Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > I’ve been to Point Roberts, WA > > I still need to get to Angle Inlet and the Kentucky Bend. > > Also that little bit of WI that can only be reached by road via MN highway 23. Exclaves are interesting places. I’ve been to Point Roberts WA too. On land you reach it from Tsawwassen BC, an interesting place name. I too still need to get to Angle Inlet (Angle Township MN) and the Kentucky Bend (Tiptonville KY). Thanks for mentioning that piece of WI and hwy MN-23. On the map it looks like it’s just north of the Wabegon Bar & Grill in Superior WI. Your post led me to Wikipedia’s [Border irregularities of the United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_irregularities_of_the_United_States). These places are listed on that page, along with others. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/139 "2019-09-11T13:17:56Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > East Berlin was a really grim place in those days. Indeed, and made to seem all the grimmer by its contrast with West Berlin. When I was there, 25 years after the end of WWII, West Berlin was rebuilt, its wide thoroughfares alive with people, cars, and color. Much of East Berlin still looked like [this](http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/46781000/jpg/_46781342_a9412c09-5495-4c94-95d9-0beb32df1bfd.jpg). ---
**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 11, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/140 "2019-09-11T13:26:12Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Thanks for mentioning that piece of WI and hwy MN-23. On the map it looks like it’s just north of the Wabegon Bar & Grill in Superior WI. Googling turns up a number of articles about the Wabegon Bar and Grill’s unique location, and the benefits to thirsty/gambling Minnesotans nearby. :eek: I loves me some enclaves and exclaves, to be sure. PS: you a Giants fan? I went to HS with Brett Butler. Not a geographic anomaly, or unique location it’s true. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879.md?page=8)