I started the list last night and continued on this morning. When I finally stopped to count, there were far more than the 50 places that I had originally challenged myself to come up with - even when I limited myself to spots that I haven't already gone. If I had added in the places I want to return to, the list would have been about twice as long before I stopped. Now the trouble is that I need to come up with the time (and funds) to see them all!
I didn't try to put the places in any sort of order as I wrote them out (though I did sort them geographically as I typed them into the blog). I did see some interesting patterns come out through this exercise. First, I'm not a sit on the beach girl - sand and sun are obviously much less important to me than historic sites or natural wonders. Second, I could definitely group some of these into a nice vacation - New York City, a larger tour of Great Britain, Germany/Austria/Poland, etc. Third, I really don't like being overly warm when I'm walking around on vacation - and this list reflects it because the only hot places are those with a big historic push behind them.
Here's my list of places I'd like to explore (with stars next to the top five):
In Minnesota:
- Minnehaha Falls - Minneapolis
- Mississippi Headwaters - Itasca* (I can hardly believe that I haven't been here yet!)
- Big Yellow Barn - Jordan
- Minnesota History Center - St Paul
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts - Minneapolis
- Caponi Art Park - Eagen
- Hjemkomst Heritage Center - Moorhead
- Mill City Museum - Minneapolis
- Kensington Runestone Museum - Alexandria
- Wabasha Street Caves - St Paul
In the United States:
- Independence National Historic Park - Philadelphia, PA
- New Orleans, LA (preferably during Mardi Gras - because the crowds would be worth the parades)
- Museum of Modern Art - New York City, NY
- Yellowstone National Park - WY / MT
- Hoover Dam - Nevada
- Grand Canyon - AZ
- Central Park - New York City, NY
- Coney Island - New York City, NY
- Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park - Alaska
- Disney World - FL
- Sequoia National Park - CA
- Kennedy Space Center - FL
- Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park - Hawaii
- Mammoth Cave - Kentucky
- Tall Grass Prairie National Preserve - KS
- Assateague Island National Seashore - MD
- Boston Public Library - Boston, MA (and other historic places in Boston)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Ohio
- Hershey, PA
- Newport Mansions, RI
- EAA Air Venture Museum - WI
- Door County - WI
- Ashfall Fossil Beds - NE
In Canada:
- Banff- for the mountains
- Edmonton - for the historic section
- Calgary - because I've read so many books set there
- Toronto - for the culture
- Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia - due to Anne of Green Gables
In Europe:
- Rome, Italy (particularly the Coliseum)
- Hadrian's Wall - England/Scotland
- Venice, Italy
- Red Square - Moscow, Russia
- Leaning Tower - Pisa, Italy
- Stonehenge - England
- Churchill War Rooms - London, England
- Acropolis - Athens, Greece*
- Auschwitz - Poland
- Edinburgh Castle - Edinburgh, Scotland*
- Leeds Castle - England
- Mount Snowdon - Wales
- Tintagel Castle -England
- Berlin, Germany
- Oxford, England
- Cliffs of Dover - Dover, England
- Delphi, Greece
- Cardiff Castle - Wales*
- Caernarfon Castle - Wales
- Alhambra Palace - Spain
- Orkney Islands - Scotland
- Hermitage Museum - St. Petersburg, Russia
- a fjord - Norway (not picky on which - I just want to see what they really look like in real life)
- Giant's Causeway - Ireland
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Pompeii, Italy
- Dublin, Ireland
- Reykjavik, Iceland
- the Black Forest - Germany
- Palace of Versailles - France
- Bath, England
- York, England
- Glastonbury, England
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Vienna, Austria
- Salzburg, Austria
- Oberammergau, Germany
Across the rest of the World:
- the Pyramids / Sphynx - Giza, Egypt*
- Karnak / Valley of the Kings - Luxor, Egypt
- Site of Troy - Turkey
- Antarctica (anywhere on the continent just to say I've been there!)
- the Terra Cotta Army - Xi'An, China
- Waitomo Glowworm Caves - New Zealand
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Kathmandu, Nepal
- Cairo, Egypt
- Patagonia, Chile
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- the Serengeti Plain - Tanzania / Kenya
- Mumbai (Bombay), India
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