Travel meme gakked from vflick

[monkeybard]

Instructions: Bold the places you've been and italicize the places you long to see. Add one place you've been and one place you'd like to go at the bottom.

1. Times Square, New York City, NY: 35 million visitors every year
2. National Mall & Memorial Parks, Washington, D.C. (Washington Monument, Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, the war memorials): About 25 million
3. Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, Lake Buena Vista, Fla.: 16.6 million
4. Trafalgar Square, London, England: 15 million
5. Disneyland Park, Anaheim, Calif.: 14.7 million
6. Niagara Falls, Ontario and New York: 14 million
7. Fisherman’s Wharf/Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, Calif.: 13 million
8. Tokyo Disneyland/DisneySea, Tokyo, Japan: 12.9 million
9. Notre Dame de Paris, Paris, France: 12 million
10. Disneyland Paris, Marne-La-Vallee, France: 10.6 million
11. The Great Wall of China, Badaling area, China: About 10 million
12. The Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Tennessee/North Carolina: 9.2 million
13. Universal Studios Japan, Osaka, Japan: 8.5 million
14. Basilique du Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre, Paris, France: 8 million
15. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France: 7.5 million
16. Everland (amusement park), Kyonggi-Do, South Korea: 7.5 million
17. The Forbidden City/Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China: At least 7 million
18. Eiffel Tower, Paris, France: 6.7 million
19. Universal Studios/Islands of Adventure at Universal Orlando, Fla: 6 million
20. SeaWorld Florida, Orlando, Fla: 5,740,000
21. Pleasure Beach (amusement park), Blackpool, England: 5.7 million
22. Lotte World (amusement park), Seoul, South Korea: 5.5 million
23. Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise, Japan: 5.4 million
24. Hong Kong Disneyland, China: 5.2 million
25. Centre Pompidou, Paris, France: 5.1 million
26. Tate Modern, London, England: 4.9 million
27. British Museum, London, England: 4.8 million
28. Universal Studios Los Angeles, Calif.: 4.7 million
29. National Gallery, London, England: 4.6 million
30. Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY: 4.5 million
31. Grand Canyon, Ariz.: 4.4 million
32. Tivoli Gardens (amusement park), Copenhagen, Denmark: 4.4 million
33. Ocean Park (amusement park), Hong Kong, China: 4.38 million
34. Busch Gardens (amusement park), Tampa Bay, Fla.: 4.36 million
35. SeaWorld California, San Diego, Calif.: 4.26 million
36. Statue of Liberty, New York, NY: 4.24 million
37. The Vatican and its museums, Rome, Italy: 4.2 million
38. Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia: More than 4 million
39. The Coliseum, Rome, Italy: 4 million
40. American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY: 4 million
41. Grauman’s Chinese Theater, Hollywood, Calif.: 4 million
42. Empire State Building, New York, NY: 4 million
43. Natural History Museum, London, England: 3.7 million
44. The London Eye, London, England: 3.5 million
45. Palace of Versailles, France: 3.45 million
46. Yosemite National Park, Calif.: 3.44 million
47. Pyramids of Giza, Egypt: 3 million
48. Pompeii, Italy: 2.5 million
49. Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia: 2.5 million
50. Taj Mahal, Agra, India: 2.4 million
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
73. The Golden Triangle of Madrid (Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen Bornemisza art galleries)
74. Victoria Falls (Zambia/Zimbabwe)
75. Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
76. The Alhambra, Granada, Spain
77. Ankor Wat temple, Cambodia
78. Taos, New Mexico
79. Our Lady of Fatima Shrine, Fatima, Portugal
80. Haeakala National Park, Maui, Hawaii, USA
81. Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump, near Fort McLeod, Alberta, Canada (That just sounds wacky and fun, eh?)
82. Haida Gwaii, Queen Charlotte Islands, BC, Canada
83. Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh, Scotland
84. Barcelona, Spain

 

My question is, what the hell's with all the theme parks on the list?  Several somebodies seem to have a wee fixation, no? Yes.

Comments

[vflick.livejournal.com]

15. WHY DON'T YOU WANT TO GO TO THE LOUVRE?! You're crazy. Chartres, although it is goergous I understand. But the Louvre?

81. It is awesome. It's what the First Nations used to kill buffalo (and thus, you know, eat) before there were horses in N. America and it is a UNESCO world heritage site.

I concur about the theme parks. If you've seen one Disneyland, you've seen 'em all imo. I want to go to the florida one mostly to visit an flister.

[vflick.livejournal.com]

and came face to face with her own face in a 300 year old painting.

That would be cool! Weird as hell, but in a good way. My only complaint is that it is just too damn big to see in one day and you end up with sensory overload.

[monkeybard]

That would be weird indeed. NordicBoy has been there and his fondest (I assume it is because it's the one I've heard most) story is from the room where the Mona Lisa is. He could here the constant babble of voices all saying, "Where is it?" "Is that it?" "It's so small!"

[monkeybard]

15. The lines are hellacious and it's too fucking crowded. I've been to Musee D'Orsay. I'll take that over the Louvre, thanks.

81. Sounds even cooler now that I know what it is!

[vflick.livejournal.com]

Well, it is literally a hidden cliff in the middle of the prairie. If standing on top of said cliff and looking at nothing but prairie and mountains and imagining yourself 1000 years in the past isn't your thing, then yeah, it could be really boring.

I have also seen 56 but never been up. Don't feel the particular need to either .

[monkeybard]

Prairies freak me out, so I think it could be interesting to stand there.

56. Is cool--esp. in a windstorm or earthquake...or so I'm told. But there's no real need to go up it. Once is fun, but then you've seen everything so... ::shrug::