Places meme from sammee42

[wellinghall]

Bold the places you’ve been and italicize the places you want to go to. Draw a line across the places you have no interest in going to.

1. Times Square, New York City, NY

2. National Mall & Memorial Parks, Washington, D.C.
3. Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
4. Trafalgar Square, London, England
5. Disneyland Park, Anaheim, Calif
6. Niagara Falls, Ontario and New York
7. Fisherman’s Wharf/Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, Calif.
8. Tokyo Disneyland/DisneySea, Tokyo, Japan
9. Notre Dame de Paris, Paris, France
10. Disneyland Paris, Marne-La-Vallee, France
11. The Great Wall of China, Badaling area, China
12. The Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Tennessee/N. Carolina
13. Universal Studios Japan, Osaka, Japan
14. Basilique du Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre, Paris, France
15. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
16. Everland (amusement park), Kyonggi-Do, South Korea
17. The Forbidden City/Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China
18. Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
19. Universal Studios/Islands of Adventure at Universal Orlando, Fl
20. SeaWorld Florida, Orlando, Fl
21. Pleasure Beach (amusement park), Blackpool, England
22. Lotte World (amusement park), Seoul, South Korea
23. Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise, Japan
24. Hong Kong Disneyland, China
25. Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
26. Tate Modern, London, England
27. British Museum, London, England
28. Universal Studios Los Angeles, Calif
29. National Gallery, London, England
30. Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY
31. Grand Canyon, Ariz.
32. Tivoli Gardens (amusement park), Copenhagen, Denmark
33. Ocean Park (amusement park), Hong Kong, China
34. Busch Gardens (amusement park), Tampa Bay, Fla.
35. SeaWorld California, San Diego, Calif
36. Statue of Liberty, New York, NY
37. The Vatican and its museums, Rome, Italy
38. Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
39. The Colosseum, Rome, Italy
40. American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
41. Grauman’s Chinese Theater, Hollywood, Calif.
42. Empire State Building, New York, NY
43. Natural History Museum, London, England
44. The London Eye, London, England
45. Palace of Versailles, France
46. Yosemite National Park, Calif
47. Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
48. Pompeii, Italy
49. Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
50. Taj Mahal, Agra, India
51. Angel Falls, Venezuela
52. Pyramid Kukulcan in Chichen Itza, Yucatan Mexico
53. Temple of the Descending God in Tulum, Quintana Roo Mexico
54. Dunns River Falls in Ocho Rios, Jamaica
55. Star Trek: The Experience, Las Vegas, NV
56. Space Needle Seattle, WA
57. Macchu Pichu, Peru
58. Amber Palace in Jaipur, India
59. The Smithsonian in Washington DC
60. Scotland’s western and northern isles
61. Durham Cathedral, Durham, England
62. Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna Austria
63. WWII Normandy Beaches/American Cemetery, Colleville sur Mer, France
64. Shrewsbury Abbey, Shropshire, England
65. Isle Royale National Park, Lake Superior
66. The Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
67. Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, England
68. Newgrange, Boyne Valley, Ireland
69. Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France
70. Lucca, Italy
71. Knossos, Crete, Greece.
72. Petra, Jordan
72. Ephesus, Turkey
73. Belgium
74. Milford Sound, New Zealand
75. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
76. Volcanos National Park, Hawaii
77. Phuket, Thailand
78. The Stari Most (Old Bridge), Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
79. Ankor Wat, Cambodia
80. Devil’s Tower, Wyoming
81. Venice, Italy
82. Antarctica
83. Pražský orloj (Astronomical Clock, Prague)
84. Chungará Lake, Chile
85. Pohnpei, Micronesia
86. Scotland
87. The Sears Tower/Willis Tower, Chicago
88. Red Square, Moscow, Russia


It's an odd list ...

ETA: When I've got time, I might go through this list as well.

Comments

[segh.livejournal.com]

Good grief, why Shrewsbury Abbey? It's a 19C fake. We have enough of the genuine article! I can only suppose the list was drawn up by a fan of the Cadfael books.
And why on earth would anyone go to any of those places in Japan when they could go to Kyoto?

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

And why on earth would anyone go to any of those places in Japan when they could go to Kyoto?

I was a little baffled by that one myself. Or indeed "why go to Tokyo Disneyland, not just Tokyo", since for a non-Japanese westerner, I'd have thought that just about anywhere in Japan would be more of an 'incredible experience' (or whatever the qualifier for the list is) than a Disney park.

I am also amused by "Scotland". Oh yes, Petra is as nothing compared to a local shopping precinct in Glasgow!

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

I agree with Segh and nineveh_uk about the slightly... eccentric... nature of the list. (Sydney Opera house but not, you know, Ayers Rock, Alice Springs, the Outback, Tasmania? Disneyland-everywhere instead of the real world?) I also noticed a certain geographical bias; having gone back and counted, all but a quarter of the items are in the EU or the USA. There are only a few items each for Asia and South America, and exactly one (the Pyramids) in Africa. What about Lake Victoria? What about the Sahara? The amazing landscapes of the Veldt? Victoria Falls? Savannah photo-safaris? I suspect I (and indeed you) would be much more interested in any of those than in Universal Studios Japan.

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

Yes-- your lined-through places (well, I can't vouch for #87) are all far cooler than any Disney visit I've ever made. :-)