Has anyone mentioned Antarctica? I’d love to go there.
Concur with this. I went down the whole thing on a big raft, Lee’s Ferry/Marble Canyon to Grand Canyon all the way to Lake Mead. An amazing experience. It’s a strange feeling seeing just a small slice of the sky for over a week.
Saw the aurora whilst in Scotland – beautiful. Incredible.
Want to see:
Roman Forum
Florence
the Swiss Alps
Ptuj, Slovenia (how can you not want to see a place called “p-tooey”?)
the Acropolis
British Museum
Imperial War Museum
Bovington Tank Museum
Neuschwanstein
Normandy beaches
National Air & Space Museum
New Year’s Concert in Vienna
Mafra palace, Portugal (I’d want to bring the library home, though – not the collection, the building itself…)
I’ve had to trim my bucket list quite a lot, because I understand now many of my targets are utterly overrun with people. Most of Paris was this way when I went a couple of years ago, especially Versailles which was very much like Christmas Eve shopping in a Midwest mall, even though I visited during a rainy cold March - disappointing and I’ll try not to make that mistake again. The Louvre wasn’t terrible but not relaxing and seeing huge crowds around Mona Lisa doing selfies was ridiculous. I walked to the Eiffel Tower, saw the huge crowd and turned back.
What I’d like to do is visit a bunch of European cities and smaller places, experience the culture, the food, the ambience. And probably stay away from landmarks based on the above. I’d bet Greece has amazing stuff to see, but I’d stay away from the Acropolis for example.
Meanwhile I’ve seen a bit of Tokyo and Kyoto, Bangkok, Hong Kong in the far east and am eager for more of this. All of these were kind of crowded but manageable; Paris really wasn’t at the landmarks. I enjoyed Venice but yes it was overrun but still good (I went in May); Florence was great though parts of the historical district got ridiculous, but I’d love to see a lot more of Italy, but no buckets on my list just experiencing Italy.
Maybe we need a “sightseeing buckets you’ve filled” brag thread 
National Air & Space museum is good, but if you haven’t seen the Air Force Museum in Dayton Oh, you must
I want to go back to Turkey, we had a few hours with my parents, but we loved it. And Ephesus.
I’d love to see Turkey. No buckets except Hagia Sophia, but I expect I’d be disappointed because crowds.
Well I never traveled when i was younger and it now seems harder as I get older.
So I have modest goals.
in the US - once more back to San Francisco. (born there and hope to take remaining family back one more time brother and sister now that our parents have died.
I went to Palm Springs but wanted to go back since i was at tennis tournament for 3 of the 6 days. I would also like to see LA and San Diego - I want to walk on the beach at Hotel Del Coranado)
I am a tennis fan so I would like to see at least a few of the Grand Slams (NYC easiest) But maybe French Open and Wimbledon - see the sites. I doubt if I will ever get to the Australian.
I really wished i had traveled more when I was younger…
From an old man - well 54 years old - if you in any way have the time and can get the money and want to travel - especially out of the country - just do it!
No, I don’t.
I’ve already seen way more of the world than I ever wanted to. If I never leave my house again I would be happy.
So many places to go. So little time. I’ll add just one, not yet mentioned: Toroweap Overlook.
It’s a remote spot at the Grand Canyon, on the North Rim. But it’s 150 miles from the North Rim Lodge.
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If my plans turn out, I’ll be there in September.
I can’t say that I have any wanderlust in me anymore, but I would like to get back into the Dream Suite at Disneyland one more time.
Getting me into a seat the first time she appears on Broadway is technically on my daughter’s bucket list.
All those ruins in Greece and Turkey.
The Northern Lights
Narva, Estonia because my mother was born there. Then a swing through Latvia and Lithuania, just because.
The Faroe Islands. I have no idea why.
Double post; sorry.
Yes. I have a short list of places I would like to visit (but occasionally add to it). squeegee, I get your distaste for crowds at some of these places, and I had the same aversion, but I decided that eve though some places I want to go are overrun, they are still worth visiting, and I would rather have traveled there to see them in person than to avoid them and regret it.
- Machu Picchu. Did this last fall. Worth every moment of the long trip to Peru. I will just say it is better than any picture, and better than you can imagine. Go there.
- Angkor Wat, Cambodia (+Vietnam).
- Hagia Sofia, Turkey.
- Great Wall, China.
- Lascaux Caves, France. Yes, I know the original caves are now off limits and there is an artificial duplicate for visitors.
- Torre Del Paine, Chile (Patagonia in general).
- L’Ans aux Meadows, Newfoundland, Canada (+northern lights).
- Arctic Ocean/Arctic Circle (maybe swim in the Arctic).
- Tianmen Mtn, China. Altho I may put any trips to China on pause for now.
I am hoping traveling can become a thing again and I can get on with my quest. Lots of great suggestions in this thread - will have to consider updating.
Sapporo, Japan - during the Snow Festival. (the area gets 200-300 inches of snow a year (500-750 cm)).
If you’re complaining about long flights - spend the extra money and go Business Class (yes - you can find seat sales in Business Class as well). Flying Business with Air New Zealand from Vancouver to Auckland and Melbourne was a pleasure.
Good tip, thanks, I’ll consider it. Those cross-ocean flights can be really long.
I absolutely loved Niagara Falls and recommend that for anyone’s bucket list. The Canadian side is not necessarily better, but it’s definitely different.
I did get my total solar eclipse experience in 2017, and eagerly anticipate doing it again in 2024 and hope to be here when the U.S. experiences another in 2045, when I’ll be 81 years old. 
Maybe Betelgeuse won’t go supernova, but some other totally unexpected star might do that in my lifetime, and that would be just as cool.
Yes! To me, Niagara and the Grand Canyon are the two Must See sites in the USA. I don’t know if there‘s a third on that list. I prefer the view from the Canadian side.
Same here, 2017 was my first, and I’m also planning to see 2024’s, most likely in western Texas where the skies are usually clear. A TSE, total solar eclipse, is a fantastic experience, highly recommended. Mrs. Bullitt and I were in the town of Midvale, ID for it (SDMB post here). I posted 16 of my pictures on imgur, The 2017 total solar eclipse back on August 21, 2017. We were in Midvale, Idaho. - Album on Imgur. One pic, of the ‘diamond ring’ (the 5th in that series) turned out pretty well, IMO.
For the TSE on 12 Aug 2045, I’ll be 84. That TSE cuts a swath from California to Florida and touches 15 states along its way across CONUS. Mark your calendars now.
There will also be a TSE touching CONUS in 2044.
I believe these are the next 3 TSEs to touch CONUS, with a tag line that’s helping me to picture its ground trace, and the US states that will be touched by the totality path, even if it’s only barely:
TSE 2024-04-08: “15 states from Mazatlán to Newfoundland”; TX OK AR MO TN KY IL IN OH MI PA NY VT NH ME
TSE 2044-08-23: “from Greenland to NWT to MT/ND/SD”; MT ND SD (barely SD)
TSE 2045-08-12: “15 states from Eureka CA to Miami FL”; CA NV UT CO NM OK KS TX MO AR LA MS AL FL GA
So, those are on my sight-seeing bucket list.
Thanks, Bullitt!