What was the coolest place you have visited?

[fuzzybuddy]

We've all done the "road trip". Most have flown, sailed or driven to really cool places.
What was the coolest place you have visited?
(besides Disney)

 

[HoneyNut]

The coolest place I have NOT been is the Grand Canyon, I really want to see that.

I'm not sure I can pick just one cool place that I've been, a couple that spring to mind are the train ride to the top of Pike's Peak, and the boat ride below Niagara Falls.

 

[RadishRose]

Mexico

The Yucatan Peninsula-Cozumel, the ruins of Uxmal, Tulum, Chichen Itza.
Valladolid, Merida

Mexico City

 

[JBR]

Definitely the small Canadian city White Horse, Yukon (and it's immediate region). Though I was there in late summer, so it was not a "cool" as it gets in winter!

 

[Knight]

Moab Utah in the spring., that was 25 years ago & is still memorable. We had been getting more fit by walking, hiking & working out at a fitness center. We were at Moab for about two weeks. Hiking all the trails at the Arches , renting bikes to bike slick rock, the off road adventure & white water rafting. Toss in reasonable condo rental, a Smiths grocery store to buy food instead of eating at restaurants.

Truly a place to remember.

 

[Naturally]

Pyramids and Great Sphinx of Giza
Walked to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
The Louvre in Paris
Fjords of Norway
Sailing PACNORWEST U.S. & Canada
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium, Brookfield Zoo, Chicago
Top of Twin Towers in NYC ... and the Copacabana
Private Montgomery & Gentry concert on flight deck of USS Intrepid NYC
Private Whitney Houston concert Norfolk Virginia
Various Caribbean Islands
U.S.A. and home
... and so much more

 

[Knight]

Pyramids and Great Sphinx of Giza
Walked to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
The Louvre in Paris
Fjords of Norway
Sailing PACNORWEST U.S. & Canada
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium, Brookfield Zoo, Chicago
Top of Twin Towers in NYC
Various Caribbean Islands
U.S.A. and home
... and so much more

Which of all of those was the coolest?

 

[hollydolly]

Pyramids and Great Sphinx of Giza
Walked to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
The Louvre in Paris
Fjords of Norway
Sailing PACNORWEST U.S. & Canada
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium, Brookfield Zoo, Chicago
Top of Twin Towers in NYC ... and the Copacabana
Private Montgomery & Gentry concert on flight deck of USS Intrepid NYC
Various Caribbean Islands
U.S.A. and home
... and so much more

You win....

 

[Naturally]

Which of all of those was the coolest?

Each in their own way. I couldn't pick one

 

[bowmore]

Iguassu Falls
Trans Siberian RR from Moscow to Vladivostok
Monet;s Water Garden
Stonehenge
Antarctica
Iceland
Top of the Eiffel Tower
Top of the Jungfrau in Bernese Alps
Flight over Nazca Lines
Macchu Pichu
Galapagos Islands

 

[Naturally]

You win....

HA !!! In England, spending an afternoon in Windsor Castle was pretty cool

 

[Jocko]

Akutan, Alaska.

 

[Irishdude]

Omaha Beach
Tunnels of Cu Chi in Vietnam
Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Seeing Aida at night in Verona
Lago Maggiore
Metropolitan Museum, New York
NY Philharmonic in Central Park
Prado, Madrid
El Escorial in Spain
Roman ruins at Glanum in Provence
Churchill home in Chartwell UK
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Monte Alban in Oaxaca
Mass at St. Peter's
Alberta, CA
Mass at Chartres
The Parthenon
Lech, Austria
Skiing at St. Moritz
Monticello and UVA (Charlottesville VA)

but my favorite is

Beaune in Burgundy, France

 

[JustDave]

Brevig Mission, an Eskimo village on the shore of the Bering Sea 65 miles Northwest of Nome.
Brevig Mission, Alaska - Wikipedia

 

[Murrmurr]

Moab Utah in the spring., that was 25 years ago & is still memorable. We had been getting more fit by walking, hiking & working out at a fitness center. We were at Moab for about two weeks. Hiking all the trails at the Arches , renting bikes to bike slick rock, the off road adventure & white water rafting. Toss in reasonable condo rental, a Smiths grocery store to buy food instead of eating at restaurants.

Truly a place to remember.

My 1st wife and I spent our 3-day honeymoon in Moab. Not enough days.

 

[Naturally]

Gold Souk at Dubai was eye popping and pretty cool

 

[Murrmurr]

They were all cool.

If I had to pick only 1, it would have to be the dinosaur digs in ...uh, somewhere in the upper left corner of Utah, I'm pretty sure. My kids loved it. They liked Arches Nat'l Park a lot, too.

But those are my kids' favorites.

 

[JBR]

My 1st wife and I spent our 3-day honeymoon in Moab. Not enough days.

We've been there too, in our mid 30s. In fact, our Nissan pickup was laid up in the local garage, three days (the mechanic awaited the arrival of parts). But we did a lot of things and enjoyed our stay there.

 

[-Oy-]

The Isle of Skye - Scotland

The Quiraing

 

[Happy Heart]

The coolest place I have NOT been is the Grand Canyon, I really want to see that.

I'm not sure I can pick just one cool place that I've been, a couple that spring to mind are the train ride to the top of Pike's Peak, and the boat ride below Niagara Falls.

I hiked it in my younger years. Enough!

One year my boss gave me a trip in a hot air balloon over Napa Valley, that was much more fun.

 

[KSav]

Wow, some of you are very well traveled! I am not, but I hope to change that.

That said, the cooled place I've visited was a church—St. Martin of Tours—right on the beach, in Sint Maarten. My younger daughter and I were trying to find a public restroom and were surprised to walk right by it. We're Catholic, so we went in, sandy beach gear and all, and sat for a few minutes. It was so beautiful and peaceful; I could have stayed there all day.

 

[Paladin1950]

 

[Knight]

My 1st wife and I spent our 3-day honeymoon in Moab. Not enough days.

I'll bet the nights were not enough too.

 

[Knight]

They were all cool.

If I had to pick only 1, it would have to be the dinosaur digs in ...uh, somewhere in the upper left corner of Utah, I'm pretty sure. My kids loved it. They liked Arches Nat'l Park a lot, too.

But those are my kids' favorites.

Time spent with your kids probably made it even more special.

 

[Murrmurr]

Time spent with your kids probably made it even more special.

Very true. I was surprised at how much they dug the dinosaur dig. I didn't even know that place was there...we were on a road trip and basically stumbled across it; saw a kind of goofy sign on the highway, and took that exit.

It was pretty cool.