Coolest places you’ve visited?

[Honeycomb Hideout]

Yellowstone and the surrounding area were cool as shit to me. It looked like what things would be if humans never touched the earth, incredibly tranquil.

 

[WifeStoreWill]

Iceland

GET IT??????????

But seriously it’s pretty cool. And they have a penis museum and you’re allowed to eat whales.

 

[Guest]

Iceland

GET IT??????????

But seriously it’s pretty cool. And they have a penis museum and you’re allowed to eat whales.

The State Department sent Liz Clarke a personal travel advisory

 

[Toast]

Definitely Chicago. Check out the Lawndale, Garfield Park and Englewood Neighborhoods for a good time.

 

[FalconeFanClub]

1221 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY.

 

[chocolatehellhole]

The pyramids were pretty great

Were they?

 

[firstimelongtime]

Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan are easily the coolest places I’ve ever been.

It’s clean, the people are respectful, there’s virtually no crime, and the food is insane. The gardens are centuries old and beautiful as shit. People sit in silence on the subway.

It’s expensive as fuck but 100% worth it. I’d move there if I could.

My two favorites, as well (only been to Osaka once, and only for a couple of days, so I can't comment... although their Conrad is amazing). Aside from being a fan of the old Dragon Quest games, I'm not into the pop culture at all. I just love how sometimes in the same view you can see three eras (traditional, post-war, and 100-years from now) and yeah, how clean and orderly it all is. For a place so densely populated, it should not work. But it does. And better than any other place I've ever been. Also, if you're even marginally into photography, it's hard to take a bad photo, whether you're at a shrine or in the middle of Kabukicho (taking daytime exposures at 1am it's so bright).

What's great about the food, as I am not an adventurous eater (I'll let friends go to the omikase/etc and don't even fuck w/sushi) is that their foreign food is amazing. I know we all laugh at Patrick and whatever retarded thing he tried to order in Paris or his Mexican spaghetti - but the Japanese can take something in, really boil it down to what it truly is and how it works, and come up with an amazing example. Yakiniku is the shit, as well. Their beef is fucking insane.

The bar scene is pretty awesome, too. RIP 808 Lounge - a small bar in Shimokitazawa that played non-stop live Dead, served Primo (Hawaii's Ranier/Lone Star/Narragansett) and had a really loose cocktail menu. You just tell the hippy bartender roughly what you like, and he'd put down whatever he was muddling and make up something on the spot.

I never found it too expensive compared to the states... meals and drinks were on par and hotels were reasonable (the Hilton Tokyo in Shinjuku is great and the new Garden Inn in Kyoto works). The flight can be a bear, however.

I'm fucking babbling but I love Tokyo, and upon a recent return, am really starting to like Kyoto.

As for non-Japan, and places I never want to go back to, but wish others would experience, is Taxco, MX. It's like a wacky anthill of a place built into a cliff/mountainside. Streets so narrow that the little VW bug cabs have to take corners as if they were 3 (or 5) point turns. Stopped there between somewhere and Oaxaca.

 

[Juschippinyababe]

Meteor Crater in Arizona

Grand Canyon is cool and all, but that was created over time by water, the meteor crater is from something that came from space. It's huge.

Born and raised here and Ive never seen that shit. I may have to plan a trip

 

[quasi101]

I've never been outside of milwaukee

 

[Torque’sHeadBump]

Yosemite was PFG. Same with the Dry Tortugas National Park and several of the smaller springs in northern Florida.

In Europe, I think one of my all times has been Zadar in Croatia, as well as the island of Thassos in Greece. Visiting Philippi and seeing where Paul was kept prisoner was awesome.

In Central Europe I think the area around Frombork, Poland, is awesome, as is Malbork.

For the Baltics, I’ll say the island of Saaremaa off of the coast of Estonia. In between that and the mainland is the island of Muhu, where there was a battle between crusaders and pagans in the 1220s. You can still drive to the hill fort where the heathens were slaughtered.

 

[Ladynyahh]

Singapore was pretty cool. Whores everywhere.

 

[Nigger Jim]

Korea

 

[Safka's Enticer]

I know it’s a common one but have you ever been to Niagara Falls?

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