Places you'd like to visit

[Quest_techie]

what are some places you'd like to visit of historical significance?


I'd love to visit dresden, tinian, bletchley park, hiroshima, and potentially nagasaki.....



any others?

[surfn hippie]

austraila

[hailtothekingbaby]

Wounded Knee, Teotihuacan, Castles and gothic cathedrals in general, anything else really.

[hiro]

England, the coast of France I haven't been to, Ireland.

I loved Italy seeing as there was so much history to be seen!!!!!!

[Megara]

urm,

i'd like to see antarctica(my current thing), russia, south africa, peru, chile(easter isle)...and all of America.

[Moon Water]

Rome, Egypt, all of Central America, Scotland... most likely many other places that i cant think of as of now

[helen]

I definetly would love to visit Italy; then germany--I have anchestors there. Seeing the alps in austria and swizerland wouldn't be bad either.

[Alden]

I always want to keep going to Normandy to pay my respect for all the soldiers that gave their lives for people they would never know. War, such a waste of life and letters.

[guy]

persepolis - the old capital of the persian empire in iran - alexander the great burnt it down
krak les chevaliers - an old crusader castle in syria and the roman sites there, want to go there before the yanks blow the place to kingdom come and destroy whats left.
the alps, germany, austria and switzerland- walking around amongst the hills acting out my "sound of music" fantasy and going to salzburg. went to munich last winter- shudder -15 centigrade so i figure i'll go in summer.
petra - jordan
egypt
america - once things have calmed down over there and sanity has been restored - the meteor crater in arizona, kennedy space centre,yosemite, disneyland!!!!
canada
explore the rest of turkey before it joins the eu and becomes too expensive to visit
greece but by camper van only, fed up of crap food, crappy hotels and high expense for bugger all in return. can see myself wandering the taygetus and parnon mountain ranges. combing over the ancient sites.

[happiedaze42]

italy and new zealand.....definitely egypt as well

[feministhippy]

India, Morocco, Ireland, Italy.

[Sage-Phoenix]

Russia

I'm writing a historical novel, about the murder of Rasputin. So desperatly want to actually go to the 'crime scene' and get a true feel for the location. Have been facinated by that time and place for years.

[Blueriver]

New Zealand is high on my list.

[Big Bull]

Egypt, just to stand and gaze upon the Pyramids! That would be a wondrous site. I had a cousin that worked for a phone company, that laid new lines there, he said it struck him with awe! He would never forget that site as long as he lived!

[Donna]

Ireland :)

[Wond'ringAloud]

Chinon and the abbey of Fontevrault in France. Love the Plantagenets, especially Eleanor of Aquitaine.

[Ann-Akim]

Brazil

[MikeE]

Do I get a time machine or am I stuck with jet planes?

I'd like to see Shakespear tread the boards, listen to Mozart's opening night, Woodstock would be nice.

Menlo Park would be interesting in its heyday. The Barbary Coast in '49. Antibellum New Orleans.

Hearing JS Bach live would be sweet.

[Bocks]

Europe, South America, Antarctica...and at least one REALLY undeveloped country.

[Lennons_Lover]

i wanna visit california and england and hawii and germany!!!!

[EwokUtopia]

Karakorum...the ruins of the old capitol of the Mongol Empire
Persepolis...."" """ """ """ """ """ """ """ """ " """ """ Persian """ """
Chichen Itza... Mayan ruins in the Yucatan
Byzantium AKA Constantinople AKA Istanbul
Baghdad
Moskow and St Petersberg
The Black Forest
The Pripet marshes




many many more

[Greengirl]

Jamaica,India,Greece,Cuba,Cambodia,Etiopia;)

[WharfRat]

not sure if you mean if you could go back to em or if you mean know...but ive been to france, and mexico(cancun which i thought was basically america in mexico with a lowered drinking age, still beautiful and if you go an hour or two away from cancun you get a feel for what mexico is really like), id like to visit scotland tho, have a lot of family history there, my ancestor fought with william wallace and theres a castle that shares our last name, so that be cool to see, id also like to visit spain, basically id like to see everything but as for historical significance id like to see rome, greece, italy, egypt kinda places were it all happened...not the beginning of life, but the beginning of well organized civilizations

[makno]

yea like temples in southern india ...thatd be cool to see ...

[TrippinBTM]

Starting off here in America, I want to see those old stone forts in Georgia and Tennessee (I think those are the states) that predate Colombus. Some say they were made by a lost group of Welsh settlers, as one of them has the exact same design as a castle in Wales, and I hear they unearthed some bronze armor. I guess the Grand Canyon and Mt Rushmore are historical, right? Pretty cool anyways, I'd want to hike around in those areas. I'd like to see the scene of the Battle of Little Bighorn and some other sites for Indian battles, and also the ancient Anasazi ruins, and the Cahokia ruins in Missouri/Illinois (I'm pretty into Native American history, in a way). I also think Macchu Pichu in Peru would be awesome, a sacred city in the clouds has got to be sweet.

Now, ideally (though I'll likely never get to do it) I'd like to see Jerusalem/the Holy Land, and some of the ancient Greek ruins, as well as the areas where the Buddha came from in Nepal/northern India. Also, seeing Olduavi Gorge and other East and Southern African fossil sites would be cool, to see where we all came from.

[robbie 3945]

Gettysburg, PA July 2-3, 1863 - from a VERY safe place

[EwokUtopia]

Ive been to the modern day gettysburg, quaint town, but huge tourism

[Waitin4thesummerrain]

Rome, Jamaica, Hawaii, England ,India ,Germany and Ireland thats all i have for now LOL
Peace
katy

[Waitin4thesummerrain]

Rome, Jamaica, Hawaii, England ,India ,Africa ,Germany and Ireland thats all i have for now LOL
Peace
katy

[Sophie-Jo]

I want to go to the Great Wall of China, the Grand Canyon, Moscow and St. Petersburg (compare and contrast), the pyramids in Egypt and also the ones in South America. I'd also want to go to Woodstock (I know the festival wasn't really held there, but still). I'd also like to go back to the dying moments of several people to ask them to tell them I admire/respect/love them (delete as applicable). Wow, far too morbid for this early in the morning...

[EwokUtopia]

Hadrians wall would be cool too. Gotland as well

[fountains of nay]

The Siberian expressway
Everest base camp in Tibet.
China
Mongolia
Okinawa

[EwokUtopia]

Lenins tomb

[Weissdorn]

The castles of the German Order of St. John (Johanniter). There's one about 30 miles away from where I live, but it won't open until the end of March. Other castles are in the Czech Republic and Poland.

[themnax]

visiting places of historical interest may not teach you all that much of REAL history unless you visit them in that timefraime in which they were. certainly there is only so much the christianized, hellinized crete of today can even hint at as to the crete of minose, probable origen of plato's atlantian myths. historical markers are often quotations from the same distorted or even invented 'histories' you were decetefully brainwashed with in school. an exception might be someplace where culturaly there are traditions of passing down the at the time perceptions of historical incidents or culture defining mythologies such as ireland, scotland, wales.

if you visit someplace staying at a big name modern franchise hotel you'll more likely get the perceptions of the homeland of the parent company of the hotel chain then those of the actual local way of life.

now i would like to visit certain places at their own points in time. or perhaps a bit safer, some how see and record them through the eyes innocuous and unnoticed creatures that would normaly have been there at the time. this may sound like fantasy, and is often the stuff of fantasies, but it is not unimaginable as some potential future tecnology.

i would also like, if i had that much resources and rounduits, to participate in a scientific cultural archiological dig.

i was on a couple of local 'mini-digs' as a student and i loved it.

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[Tool Army2012]

Normandy, Auschwitz, Berlin, Munich, London, Paris

[themnax]

some of the exact spots where i've lived in this life, about a thousand years before i was born there. before the european invasion of north america in mid milinium.

i'd really like to see, and maybe even live, first hand, how the indiginous maidu who have been here for ten thousand years at least, were actually living and doing things.

sure no trains or computers, but no cars or overpopulation either. maybe i wouldn't want to stay there, but i'd at least like to visit.

nepal at the time of its first unification might be interesting too. and at the time of sidartha gutama. to have actually been at one of his public appearances. and lao tsu's china. i might have liked to have seen the ohioan civilization at its peak as well.

sri-lanka at the time of the serindip brother's, although it's climate is too tropical for my taste, likewise, as already mentioned, minoen crete.

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[guy]

persepolis - the old capital of the persian empire in iran - alexander the great burnt it down
krak les chevaliers - an old crusader castle in syria and the roman sites there, want to go there before the yanks blow the place to kingdom come and destroy whats left.
the alps, germany, austria and switzerland- walking around amongst the hills acting out my "sound of music" fantasy and going to salzburg. went to munich last winter- shudder -15 centigrade so i figure i'll go in summer.
petra - jordan
egypt
america - once things have calmed down over there and sanity has been restored - the meteor crater in arizona, kennedy space centre,yosemite, disneyland!!!!
canada
explore the rest of turkey before it joins the eu and becomes too expensive to visit
greece but by camper van only, fed up of crap food, crappy hotels and high expense for bugger all in return. can see myself wandering the taygetus and parnon mountain ranges. combing over the ancient sites.petra jordan - done

egypt - done

craks des chevaliers syria - done

turkey further exploring - done

[heartsnotfarts]

Catacombs of paris

[MariusCesar]

Opéra Bastille near where "The Storming of the Bastille" happend.

Wallachia... where Vlad Tepes was raised. Present day South Romania.

The Red-light district & the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam.

Marius

[thehippie_08]

well...*clears throat*

Massachusetts
Virginia
Washington DC
England
France
Scotland
Sweden
Austria
China
Japan
Mexico
Peru
Africa
Egypt

...i think that's it, for historical value at least... =]

[Simplicius]

Europe has many beautiful places. Rome, Athen, Amsterdam, London, Paris that´ s all not too far away. Moscow and St. Petersburg I don´t know yet.

The most popular destination nowadays for vacation of most Germans is the island of Mallorca. In former times it was Italy, and Germansy greatest poet Goethe wrote a famous poem "Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühen" (You know the land, the lemons blossoming?) A parody on fashist Germany was "Kennst du das Land, wo die Kanonen blühn" The Country, where Cannons are blossoming)


My own favourite for vacation is Flander, and the towns of Ghent and Brugge are really very beautiful.

[Katinka]

England & USA.

[SpreadneckGA]

Australia and the Amazon

[guy]

some places i've been that people might know??

hadrians wall
holy island (lindisfarne)
abu simbal
giza (pyramids/ sphinx)
karnak (temple)
sparta (temple of artemis orthia - the whipping gauntlet)
delphi (the oracle of delphi)
olympia (the temple of zeus)
castle neuschwanstein and linderhoff
knossos (crete - the labyrinth of the minotaur)
rhodes (the colossus)
pergamum (site of the altar of zeus)
ephesus
istanbul
tomb of the leader of the whirling dervishes
the chimera (olympos)
the mausoleum (bodrum)
stonehenge
avebury circle (infinitely better) and silbury hill
lulworth cove
tyneham village dorset
paris (the louvre/ eiffel tower/ la defense/ sacre cour)
rouen
amiens
alexandria (the library and the site of the pharos)
munich (haus der kunst, deutsches museum et al)
athens (the parthenon)
santorini (akrotiri possible place of "atlantis")
ain dara
apamea
krak des chavaliers
damascus (the tomb of saladin)
aleppo
petra
jerusalem (wailing wall/dome of the rock)
palmyra
glastonbury tor (the isle of avalon - king arthur)
isle of skye
edinburgh castle
shere village
the cathedrals of england and wales

[Subliminal89]

i want to go to the west coast really bad. also france, italy, brazil, aruba, the bermuda triangle, and i want to go down under.

[MR.BACKWOOD]

Japan

[trancedance]

England,
France,
Italy (parts of rome and monte casino),
Israel,
Egypt,
Japan,
Scotland,
Ireland,
Canada,
etc.. dont have time to list them all

[Cate8]

I want to go absolutely everywhere, and see everything.

[oysterhead]

I think a visit to India would be cool

[dirtydog]

What's in a name? Not much, usually. But picture Russian nineteenth century pioneers, opening up mines and farms 8,000 km (5,000 miles) east of Moscow, in southern Siberia. And what do they call their village? The Church of the Annunciation, Blagoveschensk.

What was the Annunciation? In Christian mythology it was the message of the angel Gabriel to Mary, telling her that she had conceived the Christ. Of course this must have happened on or about March 25, year 0 A.D.

Today Blagoveschensk is a mining and agricultural center of 219,000 on the Amur River, with China on the south bank. That is, a little smaller than Anchorage, Alaska, but larger than most Canadian cities north of latitude 50. According to Wikipedia, relations with China are currently good, and there is a local free trade zone.

So, this Siberian city with the intriguing name is someplace I'd like to visit, not for any real good reason...

[xexon]

I'd like to see the Pyramids again.

I came down the Nile with my father one year to deliver a load of our grain to those who were building the great Pyramids. They took all that we brought them. We all marveled at what was rising from the desert floor. Surely it was the work of the gods themselves. I was of Syrian lineage then.

But that was a long time ago. :)


x

[mariecstasy]

how old are you xenox?

[snake_grass]

egypts or mayians

just to go learn something up close about them instead of on tv

[Spaced06]

how old are you xenox?

Several thousand years, apparently.

I'd like to be all over the place and see it all. But living with one of the last few indigenous tribes in the Amazon who still live the way they did before the Europeans came would be particularly amazing.

[mariecstasy]

Several thousand years, apparently.

I'd like to be all over the place and see it all. But living with one of the last few indigenous tribes in the Amazon who still live the way they did before the Europeans came would be particularly amazing.

I can go with several thousand years!

Good answer too. Thats what I want as well. I'm supposed to get married next year and we are eloping.....I told him that I wanted to do just what you described....

not very honeymoony though, huh?

[snake_grass]

What's in a name? Not much, usually. But picture Russian nineteenth century pioneers, opening up mines and farms 8,000 km (5,000 miles) east of Moscow, in southern Siberia. And what do they call their village? The Church of the Annunciation, Blagoveschensk.

What was the Annunciation? In Christian mythology it was the message of the angel Gabriel to Mary, telling her that she had conceived the Christ. Of course this must have happened on or about March 25, year 0 A.D.

Today Blagoveschensk is a mining and agricultural center of 219,000 on the Amur River, with China on the south bank. That is, a little smaller than Anchorage, Alaska, but larger than most Canadian cities north of latitude 50. According to Wikipedia, relations with China are currently good, and there is a local free trade zone.

So, this Siberian city with the intriguing name is someplace I'd like to visit, not for any real good reason...


whats up with the big bro in your picture looks cool

or is he/she in trouble?

[Spaced06]

I can go with several thousand years!

Good answer too. Thats what I want as well. I'm supposed to get married next year and we are eloping.....I told him that I wanted to do just what you described....

not very honeymoony though, huh?

I think typical honeymoons are kind of boring.
You could also take the chance to go to Peru and have a sip of lady Ayahuasca as well, that's another must do for me.

[killuminati]

I'd like to see the Pyramids again.

I came down the Nile with my father one year to deliver a load of our grain to those who were building the great Pyramids. They took all that we brought them. We all marveled at what was rising from the desert floor. Surely it was the work of the gods themselves. I was of Syrian lineage then.

But that was a long time ago. :)


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I heard that Egypt used to be green.

troo??

[Spaced06]

I heard that Egypt used to be green.

troo??

I heard the whole Sahara desert used to be green!

[mariecstasy]

I think typical honeymoons are kind of boring.
You could also take the chance to go to Peru and have a sip of lady Ayahuasca as well, that's another must do for me.

Oh I think they are normally boring too.

that there sounds like the best idea yet. I am gonna have to talk with him about that idea. I am so curious.

[xexon]

I heard that Egypt used to be green.

troo??

The northern part was. All of north Africa and into what is now the Middle East.
Israel was greener even in Jesus' time.

As the last ice age retreated into the history books, the warmth pushed northward away from the equator. This gave the entire region a period of paradise on earth. Lasted many years. But the desert dunes eventually grew tall enough, they blocked the rain from reaching as far inland as it once had.

This allowed a rapid advance of the desert northward. Populations had to move. Just like they did back in the dustbowl days of the great depression in the 30's.

Those who didn't have to move were not pleased. :)



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[Sig]

Dresden is pretty high on my list. Plus there are certain areas in the Czech Republic that I would like to get to someday. Namely the areas my ancestors came over from.

[tasha2]

I would love to visit India, Nepal, Peru and Morocco.
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[dirtydog]

whats up with the big bro in your picture looks cool

or is he/she in trouble?
The dog is not in trouble. As the shutter snapped, he was howling. That's dog talk for "Let's do it", or "Pay attention to me", or "I'm excited", or "Get off your ass and take me for a walk." When really excited, Max will bark rather than howl.

[flaming_pie]

Germany
Jim Morrison's grave
Stonehenge

i want to go everywhere, to be honest

[Keepblazin420]

i've already been to all 50 states so prolly only other place i wanna see is columbia and amsterdam lol

[waukegan]

sports history places.st. louis where the olympics were held 104 years ago.some of the baseball stadiums from the past.sports have sadly changed like most other things.

[dirtydog]

Here are my favorites:

1) Vostok Station, Antarctica (78 S, 107 E, elevation 11,444 ft). The coldest place on earth. Colder than the South Pole, and higher in elevation. Colder than Medicine Hat, if you can believe that. Sometimes called the 'pole of inaccessibility' -- another name for the end of the world. However, no traffic jams. The Russians originally set it up as a place to send opposition politicians after Siberian started getting full.

2) Rwanda, Africa. Like South Bronx without the taxis. The blacks killed 800,000 of each other in 100 days in 1994.

3) Madre de Dios province, Peru. Western Amazon rain forest. The province name translates to "Mother of God". Enough said.

4) Kerguelen Islands, southern Indian Ocean (49 S, 70 E). Straight down from Medicine Hat. An attempt was made to colonize the place after the sealers left. The sheep survived, the human survivors were evacuated after a 19 year colonization effort (1912-1931). The 100 km/hr wind never stops.

5) Elephant Island, Antarctica (61 S, 55 W). Like the Kerguelens. This is where the Shackleton expedition survivors lived under their overturned lifeboats waiting for rescue for four months (April to August 1916), eating raw seal blubber. When they were rescued, they were sent to France, to die on the Western Front in WWI.

6) Compton, California. This is where the bad blacks land when they get run out of Watts. If you're white, do not drive here after dark. Not even with door locks, a full tank of gas, good tires and new fan belts.

7) Northern Mali, Africa. This is where the bad blacks land when they get run out of Timbuktu in central Mali or Tamanrasset, Algeria. The water table is 600 feet down. Some camels apparently survive here, if they're lucky. Not many.

8) Svalbard, Arctic Ocean (80 N, 15 E). The Russians, with Norwegian permission, run a coal mine here, built to Ukrainian safety standards. The sun comes up for six months, then goes down. The miners keep warm while underground.

9) France, Europe. A beautiful country, except it is full of Frenchmen.

10) Eastern Panama, South America. A historian writing the history of the Canal determined that the eastern portion of this country is too disease-friendly to support human life. The few indigenous people in the area live on islands slightly offshore on the northern side of the isthmus, where the winds keep malaria and yellow fever bearing mosquitoes down to a livable level.

[opel diamond]

easter island.
egypt.
greece.
and i plan on booking a holiday to normandy this year. :)

pretty much everywhere in the world has some areas of historical significance. i would love to see them all. havent even come close to exploring the whole of england yet!

[SydFletcher]

I want to visit England and New Zeland.... it's so beautiful there:)

[donnyballs]

North Korea. Specifically the USS Pueblo in Pyongyang.

That's one crazy country they've got there.

[dirtydog]

North Korea. Specifically the USS Pueblo in Pyongyang. That's one crazy country they've got there.
Yeah. The North Koreans got Pork Chop Hill, too. I hope it's doing them a lot of good. I suspect they might have to ditch their dictator and his ideology before they can get an economy running. In the meantime, they might have to live on who knows what? Chinese generosity? Maybe care packages from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam?

[Meretrix]

In no specific order:

Great Barrier Reef
The Black Forest
Amsterdam
Tunguska
Chernobyl

[The Earth]

I want to visit the Mediterranean sea during the age of the Egyptian empire,
see some of the battles between the Arabs and the Byzantines and Romans

Check out India in 3000 B.C.
Tibet in the 14th century.
Also I would like to South America and Mexico before the Europeans Landed
and the United States and Canada

[noela]

everywhere in Europe, New Zealand and Australia... also Kenya.

[luciano]

To the O.P. and to everyone else in general, I dont mean to be a dick when I say this but ANY place/location/island/peninsula has more history then North America. Think about North America it has about 300-400 years of history while even Greenland lets say has a ton more history to it.

Where I come from (eastern europe) they teach you the entire history of your country and we have an extremily long history that goes way back to before the ottomans even. You are tought that in school as a mandatory subject, its very hard too and its not the greatest, most pleasant thing to study but you need to take it. In North America history is optional and even then its very easy since its not a long history.

P.S. Historical wise I'd love to go to Peru Machu Picu, Easter Islands, United Kingdom Stonehedge, wherever the aztec pyramids are (mexico and central america).

[WanderingturnupII]

To the O.P. and to everyone else in general, I dont mean to be a dick when I say this but ANY place/location/island/peninsula has more history then North America...... wherever the aztec pyramids are (mexico and central america).

Oh, you mean....North America? It stops at Panama, BTW.