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).
Nope, just places you think are unlikely to have been visited by the rest of us.
Cool. Straight out of Ice Station Zebra.
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.
I visited the Garber Facility back in the day when it was still open (now replaced by the 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).
Cool! Was it the famous Yellow one?
I can see wild mustangs from my couch.
I changed a flat tire on a motorcycle trailer on the exit ramp. Does that count?
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.
Indeed it was. I got pics with him in it, and he gave my dad his hat!
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.
I’ve been in Boring, Tangent, and Drain, Oregon. Road trip!
I’ve been in the Diefenbunker, 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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. These places are listed on that page, along with others.
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.
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.