Okay, I’ll bite: why’s that?
This is going to sound terribly trite, but I’m dying to go to Hollywood! Then, since it’s been a life-long dream of mine to visit Europe and I’ll probably never make it there, I’d be thrilled to settle with Busch Gardens instead. Might be my next best, closest thing. 
Other than those, Cooper’stown. The one that has an Alice attached to it. Although to be fair, in my world that’d be extremely exotic. 
I want to vsisit Siasconset, Nantucket Island-its the CLOSEST USA point to Spain!!
Most of which are boring, IMHO. Then again, I like museums full of guns, tanks, aircraft, and militaria… and those are things that make my wife’s eyes glaze over. Personally, I spent 2 days in Canberra and felt I saw everything worth seeing there. I may go back in a couple of years to see if they’ve got anything new in the Australian War Memorial (which, BTW, is my 3rd favourite musuem, behind The British Museum and the Imperial War Museum, both in London).
Man, what a buzz kill. There goes that dream.
In one of those John Candy movies from back when, he goes to a convenience store, and the woman running the cash register is wearing a t-shirt that says, “I’ve Been To Duluth”.
I’ve always kind of wanted to go to Duluth since then.
Auburn, Indiana. I’d like to see the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Museum.
I’d also like to see the Henry Ford Museum/Deerfield Village in the totally unexotic Detroit area.
Well, if you are only interested in military/war museums, then only one place in Canberra will interest you!
But, on that subject, I will suggest that you might like to visit Dayton, Ohio – a rather boring medium-sized Midwestern City, notable only for the Wright Brothers having had a bicycle shop there (which oddly is now in Dearborn, Michigan), and for this museum, which I’ve visited several times, and even taken a few pictures at it. It has the best collection of military aircraft that I’ve ever seen, from Wright Brothers machines to Apollo 15.
And if you do visit, you might want to drive a little bit up the road to Wapakoneta, Ohio, to this museum, which is a little out of place in this small Midwestern town.
OK, Giles you’re the only person I’ve ever met who shares my passion for Kentucky courthouses. Your photographs are lovely! (One in your collection is my hometown. 
) I’ve been trying to do a video segment on this very topic for our show [Kentucky Life](Kentucky > KET life) for several years, but somehow maternity leaves, having young children, and now, being in another DEPARTMENT have slowed my progress. Anyway, I see you haven’t been to Western Kentucky, where there are three, I think, extremely interesting Art Deco style courthouses. They are enormous pour-concrete piles that were built during the WPA years. Here’s a picture of the Webster County Courthouse.
** Qadgop**, our show has featured the Kentucky Bend also, which is mildly entertaining. Really, going there is one of those of those things where you go, “OK I’m here,” because all it really looks like is that you’re way out in the country, in the middle of a cornfield. If it thrills you to be in Kentucky and not actually touching the rest of the state, well then, I guess you would have found what you’re looking for.
Me, I thrill to the mundane vacation. I just read a story in the paper about Appalachicola, Fla., I believe was the town, which is far from touristy Florida and more like old Florida, of the 1920s, maybe. That’s for me. No Mouse. No nightlife. No nothing but an authentic experience – visiting somewhere for the sake of its own beauty and unique attributes and utterly devoid of manufactured entertainment.
You’d like Apalachicola, then. One of the best things about Florida though is that all of our large metro areas are clumped into their own spaces. It’s easy to quickly (couple hours, max) get out into rural, natural areas if you want. And most areas have natural experiences like the ones you’re talking about very nearby – for me, Fort DeSoto park and beaches, Caladesi and Honeymoon Island, and Hillsborough River State Park are within my 2 million+ metro area, and they’re all beautiful.
My personal not-that-exotic vacation destinations are Bremen and Darmstadt, both in Germany. Darmstadt because that’s where my mom’s family originated, and Bremen because that’s where they lived for a bit before departing for the US in the 1840s.
But as Cerowyn pointed out, what’s exotic to me (snowfall! mountains! temps below 30!) is not exotic to others, so this is all relative.
The only truly mundane place I think I’d like to visit is Boise, Idaho. I’ve heard it mentioned so many times on the TV (generally uttered with an air of disdain or condescension) and I once (many moons ago) dated a lovely young man from Boise. Sigh … he was really nice!
Every other place I can think of probably wouldn’t qualify as “unexotic”.
Cool! Got a link?
Part of me thinks that being at such a location takes me out of ordinary space-time.
The world-famous Albuquerque Holiday Inn, where the towels are oh-so fluffy.
Winslow, Arizona.
When I was a kid in Indiana, I always wanted to see the Great Dismal Swamp. Now I live there.
I’ve been to The Geographic Center of North America. It’s a cairn next to a road junction in Rugby, North Dakota. It’s across the road from the Hub Motel. Unexciting, yet oddly satisfying.
There is a town in England that my last name originated from and in fact is the name of the town. It’s more of a historical place than an actual town. But there is an estate there with a really big house that you can take a tour through. So I want to go on the tour through the house and then tell everybody to get out of my house.
Yes. I feel that way about a number of cities that have my family name.
Perhaps. Sometimes being in Kentucky alone will do just that. 
It was produced several years ago, so this particular program doesn’t appear to be available via streaming. I suppose you could order a DVD of the program though. You can thrill to seeing my name on the credits, at least. 
Kentucky Life program #309
One of these days I’m going to spend some time in the Nebraska country where Jim Harrison set Dalva and other novels.
There are many beautiful places in Wyoming, but Rock Springs is not one of them. If it’s your goal to visit the most unexotic place in the world, it’s your town. We used to call Rock Springs and Rawlins the armpits of the state.
This reminded me of three places that I am dying to visit:
Idaho, Idaho, Idaho!
Yeah, baby!
and
http://www.inl.gov/proving-the-principle/chapter_15.pdf
The last link was about the nuclear power station accident, but the whole of the drama is what has captured my attention. I’ve just found out that there is a documentary about the accident, and I’m sure that you, like me, are going to be buying one soon!
There is something about nuclear power plants that makes me positively giddy.