101 Places to visit

[angus]

#2 Kadinski coffeehouse in Amsterdam
#3 De Rokerij coffeehouse in Amsterdam
#4  Bulldog Palace Coffeeshop in Amsterdam
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I can be more specific if you like, but table/seat choice should be left to the patron, imho.

Actually, Palenque, a village and mayan ruin in the state of Chiapas, and the nearby Misol Ha and Cascadas de Agua Azul remain favorites as well, for the sheer natural beauty.  Do visit the Chiapas before you die.

I could mention other places I've been to that deserve a visit.  Places such as the Grand Canyon, the 86th floor observation deck of Empire State, the pyramids at Giza, Machu Picchu, the north shore of Oahu, the men's room on the first floor of the University of Texas Law School, but those go without saying and can be found in guidebooks.  This thread probably deserves places not found in guidebooks.

[angus]

I thought of a couple more (although some of these places are found in guidebooks)...

#9  The American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan
#10  the fountains in front of The Bellagio in Las Vegas, NV
#11  Lover's Leap on the southern shore of Jamaica near the Peter Tosh mausoleum
#12  The Alamo
#13  the city of Quebec
#14  Niagara Falls in winter!  (a totally different trip if you've been there in July)
#15  Graceland (probably deserves a higher spot, but these are in no particular order)
#16  Paamul (especially around 3 am during loggerhead turtle mating season)
#17  Lawrence, Kansas
#18  the Oaklawn neighborhood of Dallas during Gay Pride week
#19  Medellin, Columbia (just be back in your hotel before sundown)
#19a  Someday Cafe in Davis Square in Somerville, MA

[angus]

21  a slow drift along the back wall molokini crater at a depth of circa 100 feet.

[angus]

24a  Fenway Park (especially versus the Yankees.  if you can get a seat.)

Lawrence?  all those neobeatniks who haven't yet discovered Xtasy getting high the old fashioned way and discussing Kerouac.  (a native of Lowell, Massachusetts)  Of course you have to put up with all those obnoxious Zen Buddhists in Lawrence as well, but it's not too bad.  Sedona, AZ is kinda like that too, but with the only McDonald's restaurant of Lime-green Arches fame.  (something about the local building code.  Sedona is naturally beautiful, if you're into aridity, with desert faults whose strata feature unearthly shades of pink and orange.  very trippy. 
Sedona probably deserves a spot at 24b)

25  Any KISS farewell concert anywhere.  I've been to several of them.  (no, the "farewell" has no particular significance, it's just an advertising gimmick.)

26  Lupe's bar and grill in Providence, RI

26a  Sunset Grill and Tap in Allston, MA (110 beers on tap)

26b  The Flying Saucer in Fort Worth (147 beers on tap.  take a peak behind the bar, it looks like a nuclear physics lab with all that stainless steel and tygon hoses.)

[angus]

dude, I was totally thinking of Mars too (mediocre minds think alike!) but decided to stick with places I've actually been to.  If we're moving to places we've never been, then I'd have to put a dive along the Great Barrier Reef in the Top Ten.

[angus]

29. New York City

especially that Korean restaurant on Houston where korean-american waiters in drag serve you.  it's a bizarre experience, even if you're straight (especially if you're straight) and one probably not to be had outside the City that Never Sleeps.  I can give you about a hundred other not-to-be-missed places in the city, but I'll try to stick, again, with those not found in guidebooks.  By the way, I'm sure no one missed my post this past summer during which I explained that I finally learned, firsthand by visiting it, who is actually buried in Grant's Tomb.  Believe it or not, there are at least 101 places, in that city of 7.8 million inhabitants, where you can find total peace and solitude and beauty, if solitude is your thing.

[angus]

#54 - The (future) ArraBelle at Vail, Colorado.

ouch.  hideous.  Given that each of those folks are arriving in SUVs driving 90 mph, then I think you can add the North American Lynx (Lynx Canadiensis) to your list of endangered species, opebo.  Ah, well, first the Sioux, then the lynx.  Survival of the fittest I suppose.

54a.  Someone mentioned San Francisco.  I'd add that the beginning of the Chinese New Year is best for SF, assuming you don't mind the acrid constant smell of gunpowder and loud bangs.  (ancient chinese technology doesn't kill people;  people kill people.  Lewis:  that's a joke on the NRA, which is the moral equivalent of your anti-speedlimit lobby for the autobahn, basically.  Fortunately for both our societies, both those lobbies are winning out.  Score one for freedom!)

54b.  Any erupting volcano.  But do have a helicopter waiting very nearby.  This can be arranged for a price, but it's rather cheap in parts of central america.  I can give you some phone numbers if you're interested.

[angus]

LOL.  actually, this is one of the few threads that has gone to page three without suffering acrimony or ill will, and I hate to think I alone started its downhill slide.  Seems I'm not alone though.  Thanks.  Yeah, I took one look at that monstrous blight on the mountain landscape and just couldn't keep my comments to myself.  As an aside, skiing is one of the most ecologically destructive sports there is.  Both NGM and Sierra (the magazine of Sierra Club) do articles about skiing from time to time.  Not that I'm a raging enviro-friendly beatnik myself, but the way that particular industry is run makes me proud to say that I've never engaged in the sport.  On the other hand, my own favorite sport, scuba diving, can be fairly damaging to the ecosystem as well, but at least there's a widespread movement among divers and diver education to avoid reef damage and overdiving.  Oddly, opebo, your favorite sport opebo is one of the few that doesn't seem to damage the ecosystem, even though it receives more bad press than either diving or snow skiing.