# What Are You Glad You Have Seen In Your Lifetime (As in relics) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 5, 2008, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060 "2008-04-05T09:26:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/41 "2008-04-06T10:44:36Z")
I saw the last Saturn V take off at Cape Kennedy (as it was then) in 1972. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/42 "2008-04-06T11:41:19Z")
The Pyramids The Sphinx Eiffel Tower Stonehenge The Parthenon Bridge of Sighs Statue of Liberty Notre Dame British Museum Imperial War Museum Giants Causeway The Colliseum The Vatican King Tut exhibition The Normandy Beaches and Allied cemetaries. And a whole bunch of other stuff…I’ve been around a bit y’see ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/43 "2008-04-06T11:50:07Z")
[QUOTE=T\_SQUARE] Do goalies not get to hang out with the rest of the guys? [/QUOTE] **ThisSpaceForRent** is a Goalie. They also have to shine shoes for the rest of the team, & answer mail. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/44 "2008-04-06T13:05:38Z")
A ship called The Queen Elizabeth (too young to be impressed) Some of Goya’s etchings Bandelier National Monument The Phoenix Hotel in Lexington KY (I took pictures as it was demolished) The Ramones A passenger pigeon (dead study specimen) Valley Forge Cannery Row ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/45 "2008-04-06T13:09:28Z")
Johnny Cash live. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2008, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/46 "2008-04-06T14:12:11Z")
A total solar eclipse The view from the Statue of Liberty’s crown The view from the top of the World Trade Center The Staten Island Ferry The Guggenheim Museum The Museum of Modern Art The Brooklyn Bridge The Chrysler Building The Central Park Zoo Haleakala crater on Maui The Road to Hana Kilauea lava flow on the Big Island of Hawaii Waipio Valley on the Big Island Ded Sea Scrolls The Sistine Chapel ceiling The Colosseum Michelangelo’s Pieta Michelangelo’s Moses The ruins of Pompeii Michelangelo’s David The Baptistry doors in Florence St. Mark’s Cathedral in Venice The Grande Canal in Venice Flying over the Matterhorn Notre Dame de Paris Bastille Day in Paris Winged Victory statue in the Louvre Venus de Milo Climbing the Eiffel Tower Le Musée d’Orsay in Paris The location where Seurrat did his “Sunday” painting Picasso Museum in Paris Rodin Museum Pere-Lachaisse Cemetery Versailles The Chartre Cathedral Monet’s house in Giverny The London Eye The Magna Carta The Rosetta Stone London Museum’s sculptures from the Parthenon The Crown Jewels Westminster Abbey Elizabeth II’s coronation, on tv Greenwich Observatory and Prime Meridien Stonehenge Klimt’s paintings, especially “The Kiss,” in Vienna The graves of great composers in Vienna Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna The ferris wheel from “The Third Man” The Ann Frank House in Amsterdam The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam Rembrandt’s house in Amsterdam The canals of Amsterdam Part of the Berlin Wall, in Montreal Buckminster Fuller’s Biosphere in Montreal The renovated interior of Cleveland’s Severance Hall Niagara Falls Coney Island and Cedar Point St. Louis’ Gateway Arch The Golden Gate Bridge The Grand Canyon Route 12 in Utah, between Capital Reef and Bryce Bryce Canyon National Park Arches National Park The Cliff Dwellers’ ruins Horseshoe Canyon Meteor Crater in Arizona La Soufriere volcano on the island of Guadeloupe The Lincoln Memorial Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater Woodstock ---
**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/47 "2008-04-06T14:15:15Z")
The Vatican - I’m not Catholic but it is an incredible place… Rome is an incredible place for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/48 "2008-04-06T14:15:38Z")
Comet Kahoutec A near total eclipse of the Sun The Tower of London The Palace of Westminster An impromptu air display by most if not all of the aircraft from the U.S.S. Saratoga in the Eastern Med Dolphins,flying fish and once a whale out in the middle of the ocean ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/49 "2008-04-06T15:08:05Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] I have seen a rock. It was once part of Earth’s Moon. [/QUOTE] HA! Gotcha beat - I have done XRF on a moon rock. Otherwise - Venice (especially the Palazzo Ducale & Peggy Guggenheim) The Sutton Hoo gravegoods [The Cradle of Mankind](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_of_Humankind) Barberton Greenstones Bushveld Igneous Complex Cedarberg Bushman rock art Edward I’s Welsh Castles (especially Conwy and Caernarfon), and Warwick Castle ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/50 "2008-04-06T16:34:10Z")
I’ve seen many things on my travels, but some of the standouts include: Magna Carta The US Constitution and Bill of Rights Items left at the Vietnam Wall (displayed at the Smithsonian) The Acropolis at Athens The Alhambra in Spain Tower of London Westminster Abbey The Spruce Goose, when it was displayed in Long Beach Michelangelo’s art in the Sistine Chapel Picasso’s “Guernica,” when it was still in New York Artifacts collected at the time of the Titanic sinking, in the Halifax Maritime Museum The King Tut exhibit that toured North America in 1979 A working Mountain Type 4-8-2 steam railroad locomotive (CNR 6060, built 1944) ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/51 "2008-04-06T18:29:24Z")
The Stone of Scone. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/52 "2008-04-06T18:59:57Z")
The Acropolis - I was there back in the day they allowed tourists to just run free and walk all over the place. I remember standing there early that morning with only maybe a dozen other tourists roaming around. It was truly a magical experience. Also, The Berlin Wall - it was there the entire time I was living in Berlin. I went across to East Berlin almost every weekend to party in bars with some friends I had met over there…so I lived a pretty wild life on both sides of that wall. Makes for some interesting stories. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/53 "2008-04-07T01:09:08Z")
The _ruinas_ at Yagul, Mitla and Monte Alban near Ciudad Oaxaca In Guanajuato, the Alhondiga building and the hundred-and-eight mummies. Harpers Ferry ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/54 "2008-04-07T02:42:47Z")
[QUOTE=KayElCee] That I had been to the top of the World Trade Center, both the observation deck, and the Windows on the World restaurant. [/QUOTE] Me too. On my birthday. Saw Billy Crystal up there (wearing a Yankees jacket, natch). A couple of SoCal tourist traps that live fondly in my memory: _ **Marineland of the Pacific** _ and the _ **California Alligator Farm** _. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/55 "2008-04-07T02:57:34Z")
The sun rise over the ruins at Macchu Pichu. The sun set at Kuta Beach, Bali. The Vale of Kashmir. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/56 "2008-04-07T04:02:33Z")
Glaciers on top of Mt. Kilimanjaro. They’ve lost more than 80% of their ice since 1912, and they’re expected to be completely gone in the next 15 years. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/57 "2008-04-07T05:01:27Z")
The family plot, the old family homestead from 1600s/1700s. Stone circle on mountain top, Co. Tyrone, Ireland. La Sagrada Familia, The Ardagh Chalice (although it is much smaller than we were led to believe from our school text books), The Mona Lisa, and The Empire State Building. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/58 "2008-04-07T05:07:54Z")
-Taj Mahal -Roman Coliseum -Avesbury stone ring -[Machrie Moor stone circles, Isle of Arran](http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/majorsites/machrie1.html) -St. Peter’s Basilica ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/59 "2008-04-07T06:04:34Z")
Having backpacked 25,000 km through Europe and the Middle East, I struggle to answer this question.\* \*not bragging ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/60 "2008-04-07T06:40:32Z")
[QUOTE=Shamozzle] Having backpacked 25,000 km through Europe and the Middle East, I struggle to answer this question.\* \*not bragging [/QUOTE] Man Oh man I envy you. If I were 45 years younger this is exactly what I would do. A pack on my back and walk around the world. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060.md?page=4)