Let me guess… it’s in Timbuktu? Is it the university? The mosque?
Don’t worry–the rest of the SDMB will never hear it from me!
I got to briefly handle and skim a copy of The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison’s abolitionist newspaper.
I visited Euclid Beach Park several times, including on its last day of operation.
I’ve seen many antique and classic vehicles. The one that stands out most is one of the fifty or so Tucker automobiles manufactured before the company ceased operations.
I spent two weeks in Cuba in 1978, and got to walk along the shore of the Bay of Pigs as well as see most of the major attractions of Havana.
And I’m glad my mother made me stay up on the evening of July 20,1969, when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. (I was normally a night owl, but I was tired on that particular occasion, and too young to grasp the historic importance of what I now realize I was truly privileged to view.)
The Tower of London
Westminster Abbey
Stonehenge
The Roman Baths in Bath, England
Cleopatra’s mummy
The Rosetta Stone
The White Cliffs of Dover
Notre-Dame Cathedral
Versailles
The top of the Eiffel Tower
The Louvre
Mona Lisa
Venus de Milo
Place de la Concorde
Montmartre
Sacre Coeur
Mont St. Michel
…and this was all in March. Before that, not much.
Thanks for the linkie for Ted Simon. I love real life travel stories.
You know, Stonehenge was one of the places that I most looked forward to visiting and it kind of underwhelmed me for whatever reason. Maybe I had built my expectations too high. Chitzen Itza, on the other hand, wow. The fact that it is literally in the middle of a steaming, miserable jungle makes it that much more impressive.
The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
The Akibasan Maru, the Prinz Eugen and numerous other ships sunk in Kwajalein Lagoon that I got to dive on.
The Alamo.
The large caves in Texas.
I and my tourmates had pretty much the same reaction. We went there and were told that we had 40 minutes - too much time. It was like “Hey …Stonehenge. Cool. Ready to go?”
I’ve seen the Holy Grail many times. The first time was in a Texas cinema in 1975.
You are referring to Carlsbad Caverns?
A few in random order
The Pyramids and Sphynx
The Berlin Wall (what’s left of it) and Check Point Charlie.
The Golden Palace & Temple in Bangkok, and the Jade Buddha.
King Tut’s relics in Cairo (best), London (second best) and Berlin (not much).
Tower Of London
Crown Jewels
Stonehenge (from a distance, all fenced off. It’s better to see a photo)
The Anne Frank house
The Night Watch
The (current) Bridge On The River Kwai and the Death Railway.
St Paul’s Cathedral
Westminster Abbey
Houses of Parliament
Big Ben (called The Clock Tower by pedants)
The 1666 Monument.
HMS Victory
The Cutty Sark.
Notre Dame
Sacre Cour
Eifel Tower
Mona Lisa
Venus De Milo
Arc De Triomphe
The Sistene Chapel
The Coliseum
Venice three times - I won’t list the bits, the whole city is a great big antiquity
Einstein’s manuscript of the theory of relativity
A live, beating human heart- as a student nurse I was able to watch some heart bypass surgery up close.
Close- the Grand Mosque in Djenne.
The Harrisson Clocks (H1 through H4).
Also,
Spaceship One
The Wright Brothers Flyer.
Next to it, a bicycle built by Orville and Wilbur.
Chuck Wagon Races at Stampede
Death Valley by bicycle
Independence Pass by bicycle
The U.S. House of Representatives, from the floor during session.
The Hearst Castle at San Simeon
I’d wager he means Cascade Caverns, Natural Bridge Caverns, Caverns of Sonora, and the handful of other Texas caverns open to the public. They’re all interesting and beautiful, but Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico is something else all together, absolutely awestriking.
Red Square, Moscow
Naghsh-e Jahan Square, Isfahan, Iran
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Aral Sea (no water - just fishing boats in the sand) at Moynaq, Uzbekistan
The old city of Sana’a, Yemen
:smack: And of course it’s in New Mexico. Tells you how long it’s been since I’ve been to there. Even living in Texas, I always thought of Carlsbad Caverns as being in Texas, even though I knew better. Eastern New Mexico is virtually indistinguishable from West Texas, and one highway to El Paso runs close by there.
And this is NOT as bad as the Texan I knew who did not know Mexico bordered Texas. :mad:
I’ve backpacked a bit too and seen a lot of cool stuff; don’t want to post a scroller.
I agree that some people are cool to have seen.
Favorites:
My ancestor’s gravestone in Old Saybrook, Connecticut
Watching Jim Morrison quaff Coors at a concert in 1970, shaking hands with Pete Townshend at a tiny, sweaty concert hall that same year
The Prado, Madrid, before they moved Picasso’s Guernica
Carcassonne, France, on a freezing February morning: the old Cité was completely empty.
It’s cool. Easy mistake to make. 
Besides many of the things already mentioned such as The Imperial War Museum, the British Museum, St. Pauls, Westminster Abbey, Stonehenge, Bath, and The Grand Canyon, I’ve seen Lawrence of Arabia’s SMLE Mk III rifle (and managed to write two articles on it, which is not bad for a rifle I had originally only seen once for 10 minutes back in 1996! When it came to Australia earlier this year I took the weekend off from work and flew down to Canberra with my Dad to see it again), Que Sera Sera (first aeroplane to land at the South Pole, and now sitting at Ferrymead Historic Park in Christchurch for some inexplicable reason), the Treaty of Waitangi, and “Little Nellie” the Autogyro from You Only Live Twice.