I moved away, but I lived in Bristol for almost 9 years without visiting the SS Great Britain. There’s a pretty long list of places I only went due to work as well, which barely count.
Little Rock Arkansas
The state capitol building is a smaller scale replica of the United States Capitol. It’s been used in films as a stand in for the National building.
I’ve driven by it a few times. Never took the free tour.
There’s the old State House building. It is the oldest surviving capitol building west of the Mississippi River. It’s a museum now and on my list to visit.
Little Rock Central High. Location of the civil rights clash in 1957. I worked with a man that graduated from there in 1955. His sister was a student at that school in 1957. The old building is a National Historic Site. There’s still a high school in that location (in newer buildings). I’ve driven by and haven’t taken the tour.
The Old Mill an authentic reproduction of an old water-powered grist mill, this striking structure appears in the opening scene of the classic 1939 film Gone with the Wind and is believed to be the only building remaining from the film.
I really want to visit the mill. I’ll make a point to visit this Spring.
Is the Arcade a tourist thing? It’s pretty cool.
A friend of mine took his family on a pilgrimage to the Christmas Story House last year. He posted a “guess where I am?” selfie on Facebook and I got it immediately, based on a bit of the lamp in the background.
Funny, I was just on the lighthouse grounds last month for the first time. I didn’t get past the gift shop though. It’s weird going back to the old home town as a tourist.
Lived in and around DC my entire life. Been pretty much everywhere at some point or another. Grade school field trips covered 99% of the major sites in DC proper, just because it’s all right there.
The only thing I’ve never done is go all the way to the top of the Washington Monument. Been there hundreds of times, just never gone inside.
Austin, Texas - never been to Austin City Limits or the Trail of Lights.
OK, good to know that I am not the only one.
Wow, time flies
My nearest big city is actually London. Unsurprisingly I haven’t seen every sight - there’s an awful lot. For example, I haven’t been inside the Globe Theatre - yet.
More significantly, I’m proud to say I have never been to Madame Tussaud’s. Now that’s your *archetypical *tourist site. The Houses of Parliament have a function (at least in theory); The Globe is a theatre; Buckingham Palace is a residence; and so on - but Tussaud’s is just there for you to look at … waxworks. What in the hell for? So: never been and definitely not going.
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Grew up outside of DC and have lived in the city more than 20 years. I haven’t yet been to the Museum of African American History and I’ve never been to the Hillwood estate, although I’ve always wanted to go.
In Chicago, and I’ve never been inside Soldier Field. I’ve watched the Cubs in Wrigley Field, saw the White Sox at the old Comiskey Park, and attended a Bulls Game at the United Center, and cheered NWF Wrestling at the late but unlamented International Amphitheater.
But I’ve never been inside Soldier Field. I’ve been right up close to it because it shares a parking lot with the Field Museum. Hell, I’ve even visited the Chicago Police Memorial Wall, which is right alongside it. But inside Soldier Field? Nope, nope, nope.
I live in Topeka, Kansas and in 1992 the Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education National Historic Site was established. Bush the Younger came to help dedicate it and I live less than a mile and a half away, but I’ve never been to it.
Back when I lived in NYC, there were about two months when I knew I’d be relocating. So I visited everything in the city that I hadn’t been to at all, or in a long time. I wonder how many New Yorkers have ever been to the U.N. Building or City Hall, or taken the Circle Line boat around Manhattan.
I’ve been inside Soldier Field, but never for a Bears game. I saw Pink Floyd there in 1977, and I saw an Illini football game there sometime in the 80s, but never for a Bears game.
I’d never heard of that before! Thanks (I think)!
Hillwood has a large collection of pre-Soviet Russian art. I was a Russian studies major and I’ve always meant to go there. I just never seem to get around to it.
Springfield, Illinois: I’ve been to all of them except one, the Lincoln-Herndon Law Office. But I’ve looked through the windows. It’s… a couple of rooms decorated to look like a law office c. 1859.
Me either but they’re not even on my list. Franklin’s BBQ, however, is on my list, for whenever I have a few hours and enough energy to stand in line.
I live in Beersheva, and I’ve never been to several of the tourist sites here. Abraham’s Well is a 15 minute walk down the street, and I have no interest in going. The place, from the outside, has the look of a tourist trap. The Science Center is a 5 minute walk, but kid oriented, so I’m not heading there either. I have been through the Turkish Train Yard complex, because you can walk around there for free - but I’ve not paid for the actual tour and entry into the restored train cars.
On the other hand, I find the Anzac cemetery and the new Memorial Centerboth fascinating, and I’ve been there several times - and they’re right across the street from us.
Another one I just remembered is the WWII submarine USS Bowfin. It’s permanently docked at Pearl Harbor. We have visited Pearl Harbor and the Arizona Memorial several times and once the USS Missouri, also permanently docked in the harbor, but never boarded the Bowfin.