I’ve been to paradise but I’ve never been to me.
I can’t believe no one else posted this.
I’ve been these places. My own odd list:
Moynaq, Uzbekistan
Goma, Democratic Rep. of Congo
Mashad, Iran
La Digue, Seychelles
Kigali, Rwanda
Yerevan, Armenia
Kazbegi, Rep. of Georgia
Top of the Acherito and the Mesa de los Tres Reyes mountains in Spain, I’d guess… although I know I’m not the only Spaniard around!
Teelin and Slieve League in Co. Donegal, Ireland?
I’ve been to Paradise. The me part I’m not sure about.
Some weird places I’ve been:
1.) Top of the Big Dome, MIT
2.) Top of the Small Dome, MIT
3.) In the Diving Bell, at the bottom of the Atlantic on the Steel Pier, Atlantic City, N.J (where the Atlantic is still pretty shallow)
5.) The top of Reginald’s Tower , Waterford, Ireland
6.) Under the Sacrificial Altar, Mystery Hill, New Hampshire
7.) The Top of an Irish Round Tower (only I can’t recall which one)
8.) Underneath Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, utah
9.) MacPherson Ranch, Desolation Canyon, Utah.
10.) Saltair Pavilion, Great Salt Lake, Utah.
11.) Paradise Ice Caves, Mt. Rainier, Washington State
12.) The House of the Vetii, Pompeii
These two are my best shots:
Kardung La, Kashmir
Mandalay, Myanmar
Anyone else been?
Cal Meacham:
Finally, a place in this thread that I can say “I’ve been there” about. I thought I’ve been pretty well-traveled, at least in North America, but aside from my own post, I don’t think this thread contains a single place I’ve been. Until now.
Anita, Pennsylvania. It’s a very rural village in a very rural area of the western Pennsylvania coal regions. My father grew up there and we used to go out there every summer to visit my grandparents. It’s about a 10 minute drive from Punxsutawney, which most of you have heard of and maybe a few of you have been to. But I’m guessing that none of you have been to the Village of Anita.
I know none of you have been to Maungakawa - it’s the hill behind the town of Cambridge, North Island, NZ - used to have a TB clinic there before the second world war, was made into a park - one of my Dad’s favourite spots, so we spread his ashes there (without permission I may add).
Also anyone been to the village of Baikal, next to lake Baikal in Siberia?
I’ve been to the House of the Vetii in Pompeii. Twice, actually. I liked Pompeii. There was the coolest sculpture there – three life-sized satyrs standing back to back, each with an enormous erection… I really wanted to take a cast of the thing and make myself a copy. It would have made the world’s neatest towel rack.
I’ve also been to Bodie a couple of times. And to the Little House Wayside near Pepin. That was another motorcycle trip. There is no helmet law in Wisconsin and my hair was long at the time. I have a photo of myself standing inside the replica Little House, looking like I’m standing in a wind tunnel.
I thought of another place I’ve been, where I bet no Doper has been – Taureana, which is is a ruined Greco-Roman city near Reggio Calabria, Italy. There is a campground there and, in 1986, you could go right into the ruins. Possibly they are more protected now, but I have been to the top of a tower there. Great view.
-Not only have I been there I’ve flown a kite from under there!
I think you forgot Bannock :smack:
Yessir. Dad was RSOC in the Army, step-dad was a loadmaster in the Air Force. Although, I didn’t go to Dundurn with my parents. I was driving South after a visit home, and I went through S’toon and down through North Dakota.
The Winchester House in San Jose, CA.
The little old lady who had it built was the heiress to the Winchester Arms Co. fortune. She had been told that as long as she was building the house she wouldn’t die. She had all this money rolling in from Winchester Arms so she just kept building, and building and building …
Aw shoot. . . that’s what I meant with “Dillon”. I overnighted near Bannack on a little ‘out-n-about’ in the summer of '06. :smack:
So yeah, Bannack, MT.
Tripler
And Ennis, MT looked like a fun summer town.
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There was the coolest sculpture there – three life-sized satyrs standing back to back, each with an enormous erection… I really wanted to take a cast of the thing and make myself a copy. It would have made the world’s neatest towel rack.
Okay, you really need to go to the penis museum in Reykjavik. I haven’t gotten there myself yet, but friends of mine have been, and they mentioned that the even the door handles are shaped like penises.
To quote my relatives in Gweedore: ‘Teelin’s a long way at this time, isn’t it?’ 
Anyone climbed Dooish Mountain in West Tyrone, Northern Ireland?
If we’re going to get this specific (rather than just towns), I can name a few.
The flash-over simulator at the Baltimore County Fire Academy.
The inside of a U of MD Shock Trauma Med-Evac helicopter.
The burn buildings at both the Baltimore County Fire Academy and the MFRI site at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds.