I saw the last Saturn V take off at Cape Kennedy (as it was then) in 1972.
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
ThisSpaceForRent is a Goalie. They also have to shine shoes for the rest of the team, & answer mail.
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
Johnny Cash live.
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
The Vatican - I’m not Catholic but it is an incredible place… Rome is an incredible place for that matter.
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
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
Barberton Greenstones
Bushveld Igneous Complex
Cedarberg Bushman rock art
Edward I’s Welsh Castles (especially Conwy and Caernarfon), and Warwick Castle
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)
The Stone of Scone.
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.
The ruinas at Yagul, Mitla and Monte Alban near Ciudad Oaxaca
In Guanajuato, the Alhondiga building and the hundred-and-eight mummies.
Harpers Ferry
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.
The sun rise over the ruins at Macchu Pichu.
The sun set at Kuta Beach, Bali.
The Vale of Kashmir.
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.
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.
-Taj Mahal
-Roman Coliseum
-Avesbury stone ring
-Machrie Moor stone circles, Isle of Arran
-St. Peter’s Basilica
Having backpacked 25,000 km through Europe and the Middle East, I struggle to answer this question.*
*not bragging
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.