You know who I envy? This guy.
125,000 km on a motorcycle, meandering across the Earth. In the 1970s. It took him four years. And this was all before email, cell phones, etc… I read his book, it’s pretty damn awesome.
Well, I’ll be able to tell my grandchildren about the plot of Final Fantasy (that afternoon being the only time I could catch it before it finished its run in the cinema)
I saw some of Da Vinci’s sketches on display in the Ulster Museum, not mind blowing but certainly notable.
What else? Perhaps the cranes at Harland and Wolff, no idea what will happen to them over the next few decades, perhaps they won’t be around for my grand children to see.
Speaking of Northern Ireland, I’ve lived in that country/province, my grand children might well be living in a United Ireland.
My favourite of the ancient sites (over all those mentioned above) is Masada. Most ancient buildings etc are relics of static things. At Masada there is still the ramp and the outline of the encampments of the Romans who besieged it. They’re relics of an event.
It’s like seeing the remains of a verb rather than a noun.
The World Trade Towers.
What ? Nobody mentioned the Taj Mahal ??
Red Rocks. Having only seen it on TV, getting to walk thru the park and go to a show there was incredible, esp when night fell and the rocks around the amphitheater were lit up.
The Angkor Complex in Cambodia. A truely stunning place.
The fall of The Wall was a huge piece of history to witness.
The Charles Bridge
The Astronomical Clock in Prague’s Old Town Square
Prague Castle and St. Vitus Cathedral
Vyšehrad Castle
The Saint Nicholas Cathedral in the Mala Strana
The Dancing House of Prague
Petřín Hill
Žižkov Television Tower
Strahov Stadium
Dresden, Germany
Krakow, Poland
Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II - Birkenau
Washington Monument and the Reflecting Pool
Lincoln Memorial
Jefferson Memorial
U.S. Capitol
The White House
The Smithsonian (way too much stuff there to name individually, obviously)
The Ford’s Theatre Museum
Monticello
Mount Vernon
The Enterprise and Challenger Space Shuttles
The Holy Grail
The Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial
The Mayan Ruins at Chichen Itza
The Sacred Cenote
The Lost Ark of the Covenant
Texas Stadium
The Astrodome
The Alamo
The McDonald Observatory in West Texas
The Texas State Capitol
The Walls Unit and the death chamber in Huntsville, TX
The Broken Spoke
The World Trade Center and its observation deck
Central Park
The Empire State Building
The Bronx Zoo
The Brooklyn Bridge
“The Pit,” Arroyo Grande, CA
Route 66
My old fraternity house before it burned down
The King Tut exhibit when it came to Chicago
The White House
The Capitol
Ford’s Theater (also the Peterson House and Booth’s derringer)
Lincoln’s birthplace
Lincoln’s home in Springfield
Lincoln’s tomb
Lincoln Memorial
JFK grave
St Louis Arch
Tiger Stadium Detroit
The CN Tower
Cape Canaveral
The Mackinac Bridge
The Grand Canyon
Mt Estes Colorado
The USS Constitution
Bunker Hill
Washington Monument
Old North Church
John Hancock Building
St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans
As a 19 or 20 year old who was impressed with nothing, I saw the Magna Carta and was pretty damn impressed. Westminster Abbey also rattled my noggin. And the bust of Nefertiti was neat just because I had seen photos so many times. She really is beautiful.
Try post 58, although it was only posted 8 hours before you, so you may have missed it. 
I haven’t traveled nearly enough. (Even though I’ve defininitely seen the Astrodome & the Alamo. And Johnny Cash (twice). Plus quite a few other dead & gone musicians…Astor Piazzola, Stefan Grapelli, Sun Ra…)
However, I was able to see the exhibit of LOTR props, costumes & art that traveled the world a few years ago–with a stop at Houston’s Museum of Natural History. Here’s a row of warriors–as they appeared at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa–the source of the exhibit. Plus miniatures, drawings by John Howe & Alan Lee, lovely costumes for the few ladies. And Boromir.
I don’t think these wonderful things are on permanent exhibit anywhere.
Help me understand what you are trying to say or imply… :dubious:
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OK, where did you see that?
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Mona Lisa
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Venus de Milo
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Some of Da Vinci’s notebooks
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Declaration of Independence and Constitution
I’d go for not so much objects as people–Ray Charles comes to mind. So does Doc Watson.
Mesa Verde.
The Declaration of Independence.
Couple of years ago I visited England and Wales, and got to climb the towers of a couple of the great castles William I built. You can read all the books, but it’s not the same.
In the Armory at Leeds, I got pretty close to the famous armor for foot combat of the young Henry VIII that you see in so many books: the “Greenwich” style, brought to its peak of development, with every inch of the body covered by articulated plates. It’s good to be the King.
On a quest. 
The biggest building made of mud in the world…and boy do I have stories about what it took to get there.