I haven’t been in Tangent, I just brushed the edge of it.
For my own I was going to say Cana, in the Darien in Panama. We had to take a little plane that landed on a grass field to get there. But **Colibri ** beat me to it.
The air field on Tawitawi Island is just a grass strip. When I went, flights only visited the island twice a week.
I’ve been in the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane. Now, of course, it’s the Hotel Henry, but there are many buildings on the grounds that have yet to be renovated. We took a tour through a couple of them. The building and grounds were designed by Henry Hobson Richardson and Frederick Law Olmstead. The design of the main building is Romanesque.
I’m probably wrong, but I sort of doubt that a whole lot of people have been to the Geographic Center of the US (the lower 48 anyway) just outside Lebanon, Kansas.
I didn’t actually mention Cana, but yeah, I’ve been there five times (and climbed Cerro Pirre from the other side twice). Still, it’s impressively remote. That’s one of the scariest air strips I’ve ever landed at, since it slopes downhill. It was especially so on my first trip when the trees at the end hadn’t been cut for several years so we barely cleared them when leaving. Unfortunately it’s closed down now after the FARC came through a few years ago. The airstrip hasn’t been maintained, so the only access is by helicopter (or a two-day hike up from the river).
I was going to say, Inside the computer room in the Pentagon, but probably, there’s more than one, so inside one of the computer rooms in the Pentagon.
In the Cherokee Cemetery in Cherokee, California.
I’ve been through Checkpoint Charlie. When I was in the US Air Force, stationed in West Germany. A friend and eye took a trip to West Berlin, and since we were in the military, and the joint forces rules were still in effect, the Soviets could not prevent US military from traveling into East Berlin (the US military could, if they wanted to, but we were allowed to visit). We were required to wear our uniforms when we went through the Checkpoint. We had to sign at the gate letting the US military guards know when we would be returning, and we were told we could not travel on public transit while in East Berlin. So we walked everywhere. It was a long hike back to Checkpoint Charlie, and we were fifteen minutes later back than we said we would be. The US Army had a car getting ready to come through the checkpoint to look for us. We got yelled at for coming back late,
Yes, I’ve been there.
I have no idea why I typed “eye”.
I’ve had a drink in the apartment where Dashiell Hammett wrote the Maltese Falcon.
Seemingly, Piere La Chase is one of the top tourist destinations in Paris. The head to head headstone of Gertrude and Alice was a knockout. Last time I was there they had placed a plastic dome over Oscar Wilde’s grave.
It’s spelled Père Lachaise. It was named for King Louis XIV’s confessor, Father François d’Aix de La Chaise. Père means “father” in French.
That is all detailed in 199 Cemeteries To See Before You Die. Thanks anyway.
I’ve been to both of those, to the Golden Pavilion on a gray January day and the Silver Pavilion during a steamy August. The Golden struck me as a good place to visit during the summer while the Silver has a wintry atmosphere.
And the “Castle Mountain” story reminds me that I’ve been in Mirabel AKA Migdal Afek, a tumbledown abandoned Crusader castle in Israel.
I haven’t been there but I have been to the geographical center of the northern Half of the Western Hemisphere outside of Poniatowski, Wisconsin.
I’ve been to:
Pedvales Art field in Pedvales, Latvia.
The Corner House in Riga. When I was there they said they were only going to give tours for a few months and then close it down. Seems they have opened it up again.
Plokštinė missile basein Lithuania.
There’s a small, Jewish memorialto murdered Jews in Plunge, Lithuania. I don’t really like going to places like that.
I’m sure there are a number of Irish tombs that I’ve been to that few people in general have been to.
I’m assuming that your previous post was the victim of spell check then.
There are several scuba divers on this board. I wonder if any of them, besides me, have been to the Gili Islands off Lombok, Indonesia.
Sounds like they’ve become more mainstream than when I visited 20 years ago. I’m glad I got there while they were still off the beaten path.
Really? Wow. I’ve been in the pyramid for a friend’s wedding, but did not even know there was a glass ball / dome above it. Envious!
You know, I learned about that place from reading Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods.” IIRC, he implies that it is a special place because so few people visit it.
I guess such sites are particularly common in any “old” part of the world. In Greece I saw old looking buildings reduced to blocks (round pillar blocks, crosspieces, etc.) here and there and figured they were all ancient. Maybe so.
I’ve stood behind the podium in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives where the President gives his State of the Union Address, and from where such luminaries as Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, Lech Walesa and Yitzhak Rabin have spoken over the years.
I spent a weekend in the Vermont country house where Rudyard Kipling wrote some of his most famous works, including Captains Courageous and The Jungle Book: Naulakha (Rudyard Kipling House) - Wikipedia