What was the coolest place you have visited?

Meigs County Ohio Fair, some evening in 1961. I was 15, and my mother allowed me to hitchhike there from our home, about XX miles away. Met a pretty girl there who I had seen at a school event, who let me hold her hand as we walked around. I won her a big stuffed animal (Teddy Bear??) by knocking down things with a baseball. She allowed me to kiss her goodbye when her parents came to get her. Then I hitchhiked home. Never saw her again. But, damn, that was the coolest.
 
I'm a nerdy introvert so my favorite place was the Mark Twain house in Hartford CT.
It cost $1 million to build.

The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, was the home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) and his family from 1874 to 1891. The Clemens family had it designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and built in the American High Gothic style. Clemens biographer Justin Kaplan has called it "part steamboat, part medieval fortress and part cuckoo clock."

You get a tour by college students who regale you with anecdotes for every home in the house.

Life in the 1800s was hard. He lost his first child at 22 months. His next child died at age 24. His 3rd child survived to be 88. And his youngest died at age 29. His wife died at age 58.
He of course lived to be 75 having been born and later dying with the appearance of Haley's Comet.
 
A chapel alongside of the escalator to a downtown subway in Vienna, Austria, lt was discovered when digging up the ground.You can look down from the escalator and see it.

The Vergilius Chapel

The Vergilius Chapel next to St. Stephen's Cathedral is one of the best-preserved Gothic interiors in Vienna. It is somewhat unusual: a medieval chapel in an underground station.
 
I do not consider Disney cool.
Everyone knows Disney Castle in Bavaria. My father was a vendor for the woodworking shop and prior to that he worked on the main staircase.
He took my sister and me on a visit. One couple besides us!!!! I did hop on Ludwig's bed. No, not comfortable. Technology was top from phones to kitchen.
Or - getting the key for an intact Karolingan chapel and spend hours there.
 
Olivia said:
A chapel alongside of the escalator to a downtown subway in Vienna, Austria, lt was discovered when digging up the ground.You can look down from the escalator and see it.

The Vergilius Chapel

The Vergilius Chapel next to St. Stephen's Cathedral is one of the best-preserved Gothic interiors in Vienna. It is somewhat unusual: a medieval chapel in an underground station.
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It is a very interesting experience.
SO and I got married in the Krypta of the Dom in Augsburg.
 
Definitely San Diego back in the ā€˜70ā€™s. Not so much today. It has become very crowded. SD was beautiful, the water was clear and the temperature was mild all the time.
 
Iā€™ve always gotten a kick out of gravity or magnetic hills.

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They are sort of a natural optical illusion where it appears that your car is rolling up hill.

They are fairly common and Iā€™ve visited a few in New York and Pennsylvania.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I'm a Civil War nut. So, Gettysburg is my 'mecca'. I had a pic of a dead Confederate soldier. It depicts his exact spot on the battlefield, and I stood exactly where he was 150+ years ago. That was intense.
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I've only been there once, after my son had graduated from West Point, and I could feel the pain and terror of all those young men who died there. Too much for me - I never went back.
 
Manaus, Brazil. From there we took a boat and went into the Amazon rainforest. We also saw the meeting of the rivers. That is where the Rio ***** (blackwater) meets the Amazon river (milky brown). The two different rivers run side by side without mixing. This is quite an impressive phenomenon and the pink dolphins were following the boat!
 
Rossana said:
Manaus, Brazil. From there we took a boat and went into the Amazon rainforest. We also saw the meeting of the rivers. That is where the Rio ***** (blackwater) meets the Amazon river (milky brown). The two different rivers run side by side without mixing. This is quite an impressive phenomenon and the pink dolphins were following the boat!
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Here's a really poor photo of the meeting of the rivers I took years ago when I was there for a few days. The photo was taken at dusk and is out of focus but you can still tell the difference in the river water color and tell that they don't mix!
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Manaus was quite an interesting place for sure!
 
@MrPants Thank you for the picture. I took some also but I was not able to find them. We can definitely see the difference of colors between the two rivers in your picture. I also went there years ago. Not too long ago a man from Manaus displayed some of the city pictures. Manaus changed so much, it was unreconizable to me. I prefer keeping my souvenir of the city as it was then!
 
In 1992 we flew to San Juan PR for a cruise down the islands to Barbados. We went to San Juan a few days early and surprise, it was Columbus Day 500 years. We stayed in Old San Juan and it was fiesta time. Never forget it.
 

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