Weird / Odd places to visit on your bucket list?

[CSR Performance]

Anyone else had places they want to visit that no-one else seems to 'get'?

Hoping it's not just me! A couple of examples:

Oakley HQ in California


Bass Pro Pyramid in Memphis


I'm sure there are more that I can't think of right now!

[soxboy]

Not so much odd things, more a case of ‘going a long way to see not a lot’ - I want to go to Japan, but all I want to see is:
The monkeys that live in the thermal pools
That massive pedestrian crossing in Tokyo
A car auction

[TCEvo]

Davis Monthan AFB / Boneyard, although not sure if non-US visitors are able to take the tour now so Pima Museum might have to do.

Always wanted to go to Vladivostok but suspect that's now very, very unlikely.

[P2KKA]

There's a few places I've been, especially in the US which are weird places that most others dont go to. This is a prime example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Blue_Bug

Seen at the beginning of Dumb and Dumber.

[WH16]

TCEvo said:

Davis Monthan AFB / Boneyard, although not sure if non-US visitors are able to take the tour now so Pima Museum might have to do.

Always wanted to go to Vladivostok but suspect that's now very, very unlikely.

Davis Monthan would just make me sad. It would be like visiting a cat and dog rescue shelter, I'd just want to take them all home so they don't get destroyed.

I've been to Vladivostok, early 2000s. It was closed even to Russians for a long time.

In a similar vein I had a Chernobyl trip planned pre 2020 incursion but had to cancel for obvious reasons. Nearby is the Woodpecker and an SS-24 silo museum.

Edited by WH16 on Tuesday 11th November 08:09

[Exiled Imp]

G-cans in Japan. I had planned to go some years ago, but the tour was cancelled due to heavy rain.

https://metropolisjapan.com/tokyos-underground-tem...

[HTP99]

WH16 said:

In a similar vein I had a Chernobyl trip planned pre 2020 incursion but had to cancel for obvious reasons. Nearby is the Woodpecker and an SS-24 silo museum.

Edited by WH16 on Tuesday 11th November 08:09

We were in the early stages of planning a Chernobyl trip with friends, then the war happened, don't think we will be going anytime soon, also would love to visit Russia, can't see that happening now either.

[WH16]

HTP99 said:

WH16 said:

In a similar vein I had a Chernobyl trip planned pre 2020 incursion but had to cancel for obvious reasons. Nearby is the Woodpecker and an SS-24 silo museum.

We were in the early stages of planning a Chernobyl trip with friends, then the war happened, don't think we will be going anytime soon, also would love to visit Russia, can't see that happening now either.

It's a shame, I spent a while in St Petersburg and really enjoyed it. I also managed to get completely lost in the Hermitage.

[Puggit]

You can see some of Davis Monthan by driving through it on public roads - it's impressive even like that.

For me, HR Giger Museum in Gruyere, Switzerland:



https://alionswitzerland.com/giger-alien-bar-and-m...

Streetview: https://www.google.ch/maps/@46.5841542,7.0822179,3...

[JimmyConwayNW]

I've fancied visiting Moscow.

I also always wanted to visit LA and visit some of the locations from training day, and just take a tour of some of the hoods.

[nvubu]

I've been wanting to visit Somaliland for a while.

I'm putting it off while my daughter is in the USA as I don't think TSA would differentiate between Somalia & Somaliland and would rather not have any avoidable potential issues when I visit the USA.

[tog]

Transporter bridges. There are nine surviving in the world; I've visited seven of them and travelled over two of them.

[Skodillac]

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

Tristan da Cunha.

Pitcairn.

Dudley.

[Exiled Imp]

Skodillac said:

Dudley.

[RichFN2]

Chongqing, China's biggest city


New Belgrade, for it's brutalist Yugoslavian architecture.

[Voldemort]

Pikes Peak
Bathurst
Macau
Kyalami
Baikonor

[Skodillac]

Ahem, point of order on that picture of the Toblerone building in Belgrade, it's in the Karaburma suburb east of the Sava river, not New Belgrade which is on the west bank.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toblerone,_Karaburma

I was in New Belgrade a few weeks ago, there are many, many weird and wonderful brutalist structures (across Belgrade in its entirety, not just New Belgrade), my favourite is the "Two Idiots", so nicknamed by the locals because it resembles two drunk blokes staggering out of a pub with their arms around eachother's shoulders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_City_Gate

[The0perator]

Really want to see Furka pass.. maybe even drive there, but seems a long way to go for a closed hotel!

[raceboy]

WH16 said:

I had a Chernobyl trip planned pre 2020 incursion but had to cancel for obvious reasons.

Had it all booked, flights, hotel, tours, then Covid happened, then Putin happened, doubt very much if it's ever going to happen now.
The Unisphere in Flushing Meadows park, Queens, NY was a slightly less obvious New York tourist attraction, but sometimes you just gotta fight for your right...along with the intersection of Ludlow and Rivington on the Lower East Side

Edited by raceboy on Thursday 13th November 16:23

[shed driver]

Strangely I always fancied Nouméa in New Caledonia. During WW2 it was a huge base for the US navy and one of the ships was USS Robin - which was actually HMS Victorious (on loan to the Americans to replace their carrier losses). Victorious was my one of my father's favourite ships when he was in the navy post war.





SD.