From list so far:
[ul][sup][li]Washington DC mall[/li][li]Bourbon Street in New Orleans[/li][li]Grand Ole Opry (either Ryman Auditorium of Grand Ole Opry []House at Opryland in Nashville)[/li][li]Peachtree Street in Atlanta[/li][li]Daytona Beach[/li][li]Legion Field in Birmingham AL[/li][li]Great Smoky Mountains National Park[/li][li]Outer Banks North Carolina[/li][li]Myrtle Beach South Carolina[/li][li]Memphis, TN[/li][li]Baltimore Inner Harbor[/li][li]Annapolis, MD[/li][li]Denver, CO[/li][li]Boston, MA[/li][li]Disneyland[/li][li]O’Hare[/li][li]LAX[/li][li]Johnson Space Center, Clear Lake City, TX[/li][li]The Strand, Galveston, TX[/li][li]Estes Park, CO[/li][li]Atlanta Airport[/li][li]Boston[/li][li]DFW[/li][li]National and Dulles[/li][li]Rome. Paris. Omaha[/li][li]Niagara Falls (Ontario)[/li][li]Yellowstone National Park[/li][li]Mount Rushmore[/li][li]Colonial Williamsburg[/li][li]Grand Canyon (north rim & ½ down into)[/li][li]Grand Tetons[/li][li]San Francisco + on the Golden Gate Bridge.[/li][li]St Louis, in the arch monument[/li][li]Rock City & Ruby Falls[/li][li]Disney Land[/li][li]Smithsonian[/li][li]Amsterdam[/li][li]Vegas[/li][li]Jamaica[/li][li]Yosemite National Park[/li][li]Panama City Beach[/li][li]Tuscaloosa AL[/li][li]Fox Theatre, Atlanta GA[/li][li]The Alamo[/li][li]Salt lake City[/li][li]Buffalo NY[/li][li]Avenue of the Giants (redwoods) in northern CA[/li][li]I’ve also swum in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and the Gulf of []Mexico.[/li][li]Seattle, WA[/li][li]Minneapolis, MN[/sup][/ul][/li]Tenerife (Canary Islands)
Geurnsey Island (Channel Islands)
Catalina Island
Madrid
Costa del Sol
Rock of Gibralta
Kauai
Baja
Sequoia Nat’l Park
From list so far:
[ul][sup][li]Washington DC mall[/li][li]Bourbon Street in New Orleans[/li][li]Grand Ole Opry (either Ryman Auditorium of Grand Ole Opry []House at Opryland in Nashville)[/li][li]Peachtree Street in Atlanta[/li][li]Daytona Beach[/li][li]Legion Field in Birmingham AL[/li][li]Great Smoky Mountains National Park[/li][li]Outer Banks North Carolina[/li][li]Myrtle Beach South Carolina[/li][li]Memphis, TN[/li][li]Baltimore Inner Harbor[/li][li]Annapolis, MD[/li][li]Denver, CO[/li][li]Boston, MA[/li][li]Disneyland[/li][li]O’Hare[/li][li]LAX[/li][li]Johnson Space Center, Clear Lake City, TX[/li][li]The Strand, Galveston, TX[/li][li]Estes Park, CO[/li][li]Atlanta Airport[/li][li]Boston[/li][li]DFW[/li][li]National and Dulles[/li][li]Rome. Paris. Omaha[/li][li]Niagara Falls (Ontario)[/li][li]Yellowstone National Park[/li][li]Mount Rushmore[/li][li]Colonial Williamsburg[/li][li]Grand Canyon (north rim & ½ down into)[/li][li]Grand Tetons[/li][li]San Francisco + on the Golden Gate Bridge.[/li][li]St Louis, in the arch monument[/li][li]Rock City & Ruby Falls[/li][li]Disney Land[/li][li]Smithsonian[/li][li]Amsterdam[/li][li]Vegas[/li][li]Jamaica[/li][li]Yosemite National Park[/li][li]Panama City Beach[/li][li]Tuscaloosa AL[/li][li]Fox Theatre, Atlanta GA[/li][li]The Alamo[/li][li]Salt lake City[/li][li]Buffalo NY[/li][li]Avenue of the Giants (redwoods) in northern CA[/li][li]I’ve also swum in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and the Gulf of []Mexico.[/li][li]Seattle, WA[/li][li]Minneapolis, MN**[/li]plus
[li]Tenerife (Canary Islands)[/li][li]Geurnsey Island (Channel Islands)[/li][li]Catalina Island[/li][li]Madrid[/li][li]Costa del Sol[/li][li]Rock of Gibralta[/li][li]Kauai[/li][li]Baja[/li][li]Sequoia Nat’l Park[/li][li]Crater Nat’l Park[/li][li]Door County (Wisc.)[/li][li]San Jose, Costa Rica[/li][li]St. Maartin[/li][li]St. Bart (Cheeseburger in Paradise)[/li][li]London (Gatwick)[/li][li]Ashville, NC (Thomas Wolfe & O’Henry’s graves)[/li]Killbush, PA (Pocano Mts)[/sup][/ul]
Lets see what kind of hits I can get on these famous but small places:
Waded in the reflecting pool in front of the Washington Monument
Stood in front of the house in Georgetown that The Exorcist was filmed in (and walked down the steep steps next to it)
Lookout Mountain, TN
Ft. Point, under the Golden Gate Bridge
Lombard St., SF, CA
Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
Four Corners monument, USA
Main Bahnhof in Frankfurt, Germany (where the best gyros in the world are served)
Corner of Hollywood and Vine, LA, CA
Giant Hollywood sign
WHO ARE YOU?!? :eek:
Ok… in the order they showed up in the thread…
Washington DC mall
Bourbon Street in New Orleans
Peachtree Street in Atlanta
Memphis, TN
Denver, CO
Boston, MA
The Empire State Building
in Philly, Independence Hall
NYC
bathroom. … Hi, Vanilla, you can call me Dan…
Disneyland
(add Knotts Berry Farm, Universal Studios, and Universal Mall)
On the Golden Gate Bridge)
(add Alcatraz, Muir Woods, Sausalito, and the SF cable cars)
BART terminal under the Embarcadero, San Fransisco, CA
Sirloin Stockade, Souix City, Iowa
Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, CO
any state west of Kansas
Oh, Gawd, don’t GET me started on airports …O’Hare, Atlanta, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, LAX, Sky Harbor in Phoenix, Chicago (both of them), Denver, CO Intl Airport- on the little train thingies, Indianaoplis, Orlando, DFW, Houston, MCI, Dulles, SFO, Oakland “International”, Anchorage, Vancouver, Calgory, SeaTac, Stockton (the parking lot is free, I didn’t know how to deal with that? Had to ask 3 people, “I can just park there… for a week?”)
Omaha
Niagra Falls
Key West
Yellowstone National Park
St Louis, in the arch monument.
New York, on the Statue of Liberty viewing ferry, and in the statue
San Francisco, in Alcatraz.
Disney Land, Epcot Center, Paris street scene.
The state-side observation platform at the Niagra Falls.
Earth.
the Smithsonian
Sea World, San Diego, CA
Coit Tower, San Fransisco, CA
China Cove, near Carmel by the Sea, CA
That little gas station / general store with the wood siding in Sausilito, CA that sells soft pretzels
Vegas! Luxor, MGM Grand, Excalibur, New York…, Paris, Bellagio, the Mirage, the Sands, the Hilton
Sears Tower
Fisherman`s Warf, San Fran., Ca.
Rush Street, Chicago
Salt lake City
Buffalo NY
Southwest airplane … they have such lovely bathrooms, eh, Vanilla?
Six Flags over Texas
Jackson Hole, WY
Avenue of the Giants (redwoods) in northern CA
I’ve also swum in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and the Gulf of Mexico
St. Louis, MO --born there – and went to College there –
Kansas City, MO and KS
Wisconsin Dells
New York City
Indianapolis 500 (I’ve been driven around the track, but not to the race)
Maid of the Mist and Cave of the Winds tours
McDonalds
Mann’s Chinese Theatre, LA
Dallas, TX - Dealey Plaza
Anywhere in rural TX - Dairy Queen!
Minneapolis, MN
Chicago, IL
Dallas, TX
Baltimore, MD
Charlottesville, VA
Nashville, TN
Old Faithful Geyser five seconds before eruption, in Yellowstone National Park
Sea World, San Diego, CA
Kansas City Zoo
Waikiki Beach
Sequoia Nat’l Park
Catalina Island,
Crater Nat’l Park,
Ft. Point, under the Golden Gate Bridge
Lombard St., SF, CA
Four Corners monument, USA
Corner of Hollywood and Vine, LA, CA
Giant Hollywood sign (only looking up at it, not to it)
Georgia, Illinois, Tennessee, New York, North Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, South Carolina, District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, or New York (from the states list … actually been to a lot more)
How about: Banif; The Ozarks; San Fran China Town; Waimaei Canyon, Kauai; Hana, Maui; The Flea Market at the Aloha Stadum, Oahu; watching lava flow into the ocean, the island of Hawaii; Macys: Union Square, SF; swim/float in the Great Salt Lake; 6th Grade?; The Rooster Club, Las Vegas; Mud Bath in Calistoga, CA; On the Radio; On TV; Cape Cod; any Worlds Fair [NY and New Orleans, myself]; ridden an AmTrack train; petted a baby moose in Anchorage, AK, passed out drunk in a dorm bathroom?
Damn! vanilla, watch that Wyatt. He gets around! 
Anyone else been to:
Warroad, MN
Bayeux, France (stuck there for a day because of a rail conductor strike! :mad: )
States I have not been to that Zeldar listed:
New York
Louisiana
DC
Maybe this thread could get to a more convincing place if we try to find the one place NONE of us have ever been to?
In my case, I have never been to any foreign country except Canada. I have yet to go to any USA state west of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin. I have also never been to Delaware or Rhode Island.
Surely that place that is common to all of us has to be some very exotic place, based on the replies to the other side of the issue. But where is it? Antarctica? North Pole?
I think I’ve at least driven through all of the states listed, except for Texas. And I’ve been to
The Mall, D.C
The airport in Frankfurt, Germany (Does anyone know what it’s called?)
Munich
Disneyworld
Bourbon Street
Anyone here gone to a concert at St. Andrew’s Hall in Detroit? Or been to Cedar Point?
DC Mall (passing through, more or less)
Daytona Beach
Denver (airport only, though I’ll be there next month for a week)
NYC: across the GeoWash., through the Lincoln, up the Empire State building, and all over from the north of Central Park all the way down
Pretty much all the major Florida (Orlando and Tampa) attractions plus Key West/St. Augustine/Kennedy Space Center
Oh, yeah, and Gatorland
the music district in Nashville
Irvine/Newport Coast/Balboa Peninsula down to San Diego/Chula Vista
St. Simon’s Island in Georgia (up in the haunted lighthouse, too)
Airports? Tampa, Orlando, Newark, Denver and John Wayne (?)
Was born in Japan, but haven’t been there since. Been through Mobile and Columbus GA and points between. Pensacola. Gainesville and Tallahassee…
I am astonished by how many people have been to the Sirloin Stockade in Souix City, Iowa.
I have swam in (and perhaps peed in) the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, Caribean, and many lakes and rivers.
I’ve been to the Alamo. Any of you guys ever see the basement there?
I’ve been on the USS Lexington aircraft carrier, the battleship Texas, The Seawolf (a submarine), and have stood on the deck of that tall ship (name anyone?) in Galveston, and the old whaler in San Fransisco.
Have you gone up the Zephyr lift at Winter Park ski resort in Colorado?
I’ve played in the surf of both the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, and Florida Bay. I’ve dipped my feet in the Pacific (it was cold that day.) I’ve never been close to the Great Lakes, though…
With respect, the planet has somewhat wider bounds than your list appears to indicate; I’ve travelled quite a lot, but never to any part of the USA.
Dang, I forgot that I’ve been to niagra falls several times.
Okay, I was wrong about this. It was either Chili’s or Applebees, not the restaurant widely known as Sizzlin Sirloin. (I believe it was Chili’s as I don’t recall getting sick after eating there.)
The Sirloin I went to was somewhere in Nebraska. Or maybe Kansas.
Good thing we’ve done all this winnowing down of where we have been. How about summit of Mt. Everest? Any Dopers been there? If not, we’ve got it.
If we do have a mountain climber or two, then how about Pitcairn Island?
Shoot, I wasn’t at either one of those, when I went to Houston. I believe it was named after a president. Most likely a Texas prez. Johnson? (I know I’m going to feel really stupid when I hear the answer.)
Not only did I visit the park several times in my youth, I worked in Kiddieland during the summer of 1979.
I’ve been to the World Trade Center in Stockholm. Does that count? I only went inside because I thought it was the train station, though.
I’ve never been out of Europe, so I’m raining on this happy parade.
Well, given that I’ve never been to Australia, and I’m certain that there are Australian Dopers who have never been to Canada, there may not be a place where all of us have been, even if we say something general like ‘sticking our toes in the Pacific Ocean’.
I like the idea of finding the one relatively-well-known place where none of us have been. I vote ‘South Pole’. Or maybe Nunavut.
I’ve been to Rome, never saw you anywhere near The Spanish Steps…fibber:D
Overnight in Atlanta, Georgia. Had car problems on the way to Orlando, Florida and Disney World. Night driving w/out headlamps is a no-no.
Stayed in New Orleans, Louisiana for a week.