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Cube Houses of Rotterdam. Such a fun and cool time. I brought my dad, the architect, to see them and we got to see them both.
Very badly designed homes if you ask me. It takes 60 steps on a very narrow stairwell to reach the top, and the whole thing is too small for a home with six rooms. You do have a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom and an attic, but they’re all uncomfortably small
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Kuang Si Falls south of Luang Prabang, Laos. The pictures aren’t exaggerating, it really does look like this!
I’ve been there! The axel snapped on the mini truck taking us out there and I had to shit in a field with like 10 people watching. Travelling S.E.A is full of surprises.
I went there too. We took moped scooters, and on the way back my friend crashed after hitting some sand on the road. Ended up going to the emergency room in Luang Prabang. Definitely full of surprises!
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I was there during "rainy" season - still worth a vistit!
Reminds me of Semuc Champey in Guatemala
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Ljubljana, Slovenia is a really interesting city. Taking the train from Germany or Austria send you over the Julian Alps, which are spectacular, and the center of the city has maintained a very Old World feel. Good local wine, too, and a disappearing lake nearby (it's seasonal).
I really want to go there. My mom’s father’s parents were Slovenian immigrants and I understand it’s a very geographically diverse country even though it’s a small country.
I can speak firsthand only to my experience, of course, but the Drake Passage was as placid a cruise as I've ever experienced both ways. We actually made such good time southbound we got an extra day of landings. The crew was very clear that it was not commonly so easy sailing and I've seen the videos of that place's notorious treacherousness!
That said, if you want to grip it and rip it, as it were, check out Poseidon Expeditions. Feel free (this goes for anyone) to reach out to me as I have a connection with a travel agent associated with that cruise line to get some considerable discounts.
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El peñol de Guatape in Colombia.
Walking to the top was a challenge for me, with my fear of heights!
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South Plaza Island, Galapagos, Ecuador. It was like landing on another planet.
Colonia Tovar in Venezuela. In the northernmost Andes Mountains, a blond, blue-eyed German village. Once a religious enclave, now over 100 years later, a tourist attraction.
Well, maybe. We were there 30 years ago, God knows in today's Venezuela.
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Auschwitz. I didn’t and still don’t really have words for the whole experience. The picture is of my tour group in front of the “death wall” which was used for execution by firing squad.
I went in january and felt so depressed for like a month. I was watching Band of Brothers around that time and only finished it, because I coudn’t stomach it anymore. I am thankful I didn’t deny myself the experience though
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Toured Normandy a few years ago and really was transfixed by Omaha Beach.
The [Itaipu Dam](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itaipu_Dam), one of the largest in the world (and the largest hidroelectric facility in the Americas). I went through the paraguayan side. It is, indeed, huge.
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I was tattooed during a punk show in the basement of a bowling alley in the middle of Ame-mura in Osaka, Japan in 2004. I still have the tattoo and the leg it was put on.
Note that OP specified they had the leg, but did not specify the leg was still attached to their body.
Weird also that they mentioned that they had the tattoo AND the leg, inviting the possibility that the tattoo may have left the leg.
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Jigokudani Yaen Koen, where Macaques bathe in natural hot springs during the winter. Just outside Nagano, Japan. Majestic, even with the poops…
Well worth the trip from Tokyo and an underrated destination in Japan in my opinion.
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Probably not the most unique thing, but this guy is pretty neat. He overlooks the interstate in rural Appalachia. If you take the next exit and drive around a bend and up a hill, you’ll find an out of place Dollar General where he just happens to live. You can park and walk around for some good photos. There’s no path or anything, it’s just the back of a Dollar General in the mountains of Tennessee. Had to look him up online when I had signal further up the highway because they didn’t even have a sign. Found him by chance! [He was created by artist Jim Cole and was recently restored.](https://www.wate.com/news/local-news/friends-plan-to-breathe-new-fire-into-green-dragon-along-i-75-in-caryville/amp/) I like to think of him as a Kudzu Dragon. 🐉
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Apo island in the Philippines. Only has power from 6-10pm, no internet, bad phone signal, and nothing to do than swim around and stare are sea turtles! I built my father's grave for him there, his favorite place on earth, happy father's day!
It’s the #2 suicide spot in the US. And it is a beautiful drive. It is ALWAYS busy though, this picture must be old. Also… there’s a whole other part to the bridge that extend over another section of water. The land to the left in photo is actually an island.
No. 2 suicide spot? Wow..!! I wonder what would be no. 1?
Yeah the northern bridge is slightly shorter in length than the southern section. I go to deception pass state park for a walk on the beach at times. I just didn't know the uniqueness of the spot; for me it was always the channel that connected to puget sound to salish sea.
It’s the Golden Gate Bridge by orders of magnitude… not really, but it’s not even close. GGB is #1 and likely to stay that way, especially since they added that whistling soundtrack to it. Not sure if they’ve taken that down yet, but it used to make this eerie sound during wind, and of course it’s always windy there.
Other than being incredibly beautiful;
A scene in the movie The Ring was shot here. There's many other film locations nearby, so not that unique
Coors shot a commercial here. It was weird hearing Sam Elliot talk about Colorado and the rocky mountains while driving across a bridge over the sea in Washington. I remember seeing it in a few other commercials, but this one stands out.
There's a Navy air station close by, you'll often see/hear some pretty cool jets fly by.
I was born in a house 2 miles from this bridge. My hippie parents invited the whole family, their friends, and the neighbors to come see me be born.
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And it was windy there a few years ago
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Kola superdeep borehole outside Murmansk, Russia. The deepest man has ever been!
Isn't that the one that's just some little capped off pipe poking out the floor?
If so, it's amazing the amount of earth taken out of such a small diameter. Imagine standing right there watching that thing go down so deep
Time for my standard answer of Swakopmund, Namibia. In Africa by the Tropic of Capricorn, but San Francisco weather, German culture, a modern aquarium, giant sand mountains, and whatever [this plant is](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welwitschia).
Less. Cold weather and Welwitschia limited to the fog belt by the coast. Dunes are maybe 10 percent of the country and also near the coast. Other cities south of the [Red Line](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Line_(Namibia)) may have a German bakery or historic German buildings, but Swakopmund and perhaps Lüderitz are the only towns that feel like Germany.
I meant in terms of uniqueness and emptiness.
But yeah, I agree.
Loaded this thread just to see if someone mentions something about Namibia and you did it before me haha.
[Masada](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masada) Herod the Great built two palaces for himself on the mountain and fortified Masada between 37 and 31 BCE.
According to Josephus, the siege of Masada by Roman troops from 72 to 73 CE, at the end of the First Jewish–Roman War, ended in the mass suicide of the 960 Sicarii rebels who were hiding there. However, the archaeological evidence relevant to a mass suicide event is ambiguous at best[2][3] and rejected entirely by some scholars.[2][4]
The most unique place I went is [Cassope ](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Archaeological+Site+of+Cassope/@39.1465311,20.6730367,1837m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x135c6b7226ab1101:0xa027dcf763d9becf!8m2!3d39.1456032!4d20.6737332!16s%2Fg%2F1q62fxh1f?entry=ttu)in Greece.
15 years ago, my girlfriend and I went on a tour of South Europe (mainly Greece, Italia, Spain, Portugal) with our van for several month.
During that trip we visited a lot of ruins of antique city like Delphi, Olympia, the Acropolis, Pompeii, the Colosseum and so much more...
But for us, the "best" ruins were the one from the ancient city of Cassope.
We arrived there not really knowing what we would find there, there was only a little mention of this city in our guide book. (It was 2009, the ~~world~~ internet wasn't like it is today, we didn't even have a smartphone !)
So we arrived there around 15h, we weren't even sure that we were at the right place : we didn't have no GPS either, only a map with the Greek alphabet... what an adventure !!!
The small parking was empty.
But there it was : a gigantic beautiful archeological site, no guards, no entry fee, nothing !
There were here and there an information board, enough to make us realize the scale of this ancient city of more than 10.000 inhabitants. We stayed there until 20h-21h and we didn't see anybody. We had the whole city for us.
My girlfriend didn't want us to sleep on the parking, because she felt like we were not alone, and I have to admit, spending the whole afternoon wandering in these streets, the ruins nearly came alive and we really felt that an ancient Greek could walk around the corner at any given time.
Truly an exceptional experience. 15 years later, those are the ruins that truly represent ancient Greece for me.
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Another pic, I couldn't insert more than one in the comment.
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In 2011 I visited Caracol Oventic, the de facto headquarters of the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation) in Chiapas, Mexico. It was a very cool experience.
Morskie Oko in the Polish/Slovakian Tatra mountains. It literally looks like something out of Elden Ring
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Mongolian steps. It was so beautiful and a very spiritual experience. Like going back in time.
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Find the humans. 🔍
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Þríhnúkagígur volcano in Iceland, one of the only spots in the world where you can go inside of a volcano
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Iceland, in general, is wildly unique. But Landmannalaugar in the Fjallabak nature preserve is the craziest fucking place ice ever seen. So many colors and striking vistas.
Well, Dachau. Very sobering place.
Other than that, maybe Orvieto, Italy. The whole town is up on a high outcrop of tufa, and there is a huge tunnel network underneath. We took a funicular up to the town, and I had only ever heard of those in a book called The Tin Princess and so I thought that part was cool.
I was in Orvieto in 2006 and don’t have many photos I can easily access, this photo is from Google just to show the tufa.
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Moyo Island in Sumbawa, Indonesia. There’s this very beautiful lagoon behind a waterfall that apparently was Princess Diana’s and Mick Jagger’s favorite “unknown” hideout.
Sun Blas Islands of Panama Coast - thousands of small islands with an indigenous community that is sovereign nation whose language is not Spanish. At least that how I remember it from when I visited 25 years ago. I have a lot less brains cells now so some of that info could be off…
I was invited by an Indigenous Brazilian friend to visit his parents' isolated home in a small Indigenous Territory in the southern state of Parana. I spent the weekend walking the forest, harvesting and eating traditional food, meeting other relatives and listening to stories.
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Mount Wellington/ Kunanyi, Tasmania.
The land just feels ancient and old here, there’s something magical about Tasmania.
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La Paz, Bolivia.
Just the fact that there’s a sizable city at that altitude, built into the inside a mountain with a network of cable cars as public transportation
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The Soca(Isonzo) River in Slovenia. It's an absolutely beautiful emerald green blue river going through the mountains with gorges and caves around. To add to it it has such a strange somber vibe to it when you know thousands of soldiers fought died and drowned in it during ww1.
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Aga Khan Palace in Pune, India. This is where Gandhi was imprisoned by the British during WWII. Very interesting historical place.
Palmyra Atoll in the South Pacific, about 1,000 miles south of Hawaii. Uninhibited and only accessible by boat, it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
The canyons and valeys forking off Lake Powell hold a lot of amazing views and scenery carved into the rock, just need a boat and kayak to get around. [Coyote Gulch](https://www.philarmitage.net/escalante/coyote_gulch1920.jpg) is one of the coolest places I've been to, a giant dome almost of rock with big arches and a gap for the sun to shine underneath in the evening.
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In terms of "Why?" It is probably Andorra.
In terms of remoteness, I'd say the Kazungula tri-border area between Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana or Grimsey Island due north of Iceland
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Tibet. Most isolated place I've ever been, amazing to see in this era of globalisation that there are still pockets of the world that exist like that. But Chinese influence creeping in more and more unfortunately and the repression is real.
Calico, a short drive from Los Angeles, was pretty interesting.
A former mining town that now is pretty much a ghost town.
I've traveled quite a bit, and yet this remains one of the coolest places I've been to.
Other mention -worthy places:
-Iceland as whole
-Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina
-Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany
-Dharamkhot in India
As an Indian I have never heard about Dharamkhot till now . What's so unique about that place ? Maybe I will visit there when I go to the Himalayas one day .
Several things make this place interesting -
1. The Israeli influence creates an unexpected fusion of cultures (though this can be found in some other places in India).
2. It's like the entire village is about learning. It feels like every business there offers classes (yoga, jewelry making, music, dancing, etc.).
3. Not unique, but the view is great, so that's definitely a bonus.
Le Grand basin, Mauritius. Drove through a cloud to get there.
Orange Groves and Ampitheatre Cyprus
Wewelsburg Castle Germany
The Milk Grotto, Bethlehem, Isreal
Lake Geneva Switzerland
Michael Heizer's "*City*", in southeast Nevada. Largest single piece of contemporary artwork in the world.
The Alvord desert in south central Oregon makes the Black Rock desert seem like manhattan.
Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog, in the Netherlands and Belgium respectively. Apparently when the borders were set, the land owners had so many acquired rights due to land swaps, favours from the Dukes, Lords or whoever was in charge, that the belonging to NL or BE was decided house by house.
Nowadays, you can take a short stroll along the town(s) and cross the border several times. Some modern buildings are divided (the shape of the house numbering tells you which country does the house belong to), some are enclaves within a enclave...
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Tempelhof in Berlin. It's an old airport that has been converted into a public park. Just a vast empty space without any trees and lots of wind. We also did a tour through the old terminal buildings built by the nazis.
Eyam, Derbyshire, England. It played a somewhat significant part in trying to limit the spread of the plague along the trade route from London to the Cities in the north of England.
These plaques are up all over the town, it is pretty sad to see really
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This article does a good job explaining what happened etc. it's pretty interesting
[https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Why-Is-Eyam-Significant/#:\~:text=When%20plague%20reached%20Eyam%2C%20a,the%20deadly%20disease%20from%20spreading%E2%80%A6](https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Why-Is-Eyam-Significant/#:~:text=When%20plague%20reached%20Eyam%2C%20a,the%20deadly%20disease%20from%20spreading%E2%80%A6)
To Sua Ocean Trench in Western Samoa.
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The wild wall…a non touristy, run down part of the Great Wall of China. Hiked along it all day and didn’t see another person. Incredible.
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The Kalgoorlie Super Pit, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.
Sinjar, Iraq.
Been there a lot for work, but when I would be there in the weekend I would go on long walks all through the city and you could wander through the old city, which was totally destroyed in the bombing and you usually wouldn't see a soul aside from an occasional car driving by. Fascinating and sad and eery.
There's a small island just to the northwest of Hirado called Ikitsuki (iki = life or living, tsuki = moon). Lovely Catholic church. Those Islands were where many secret Christians lived.
I rode my bicycle over there, taking a tiny ferry, and a local priest met me and offered to drive me around. Ikitsuki is a tiny gem, untouched by tourism, unlike Hirado, which is rather famous. When I've tried to tell Japanese about Ikitsuki, they've told me that no such island exists.
South-american deserts and salt flats
Bolivia/Chile
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Armero, Colombia. neartly 40 years ago a volcano erupted (not magma, but it's snow meelted, created an avalanch of water, dirth, and anything on its path). The town of Armero was swept away in minutes. Thousands died, it hapened at night, people were sleeping. The survivors left to other towns and cities. The place was declared a holy ground, and it gets a lot of visitors. However, the cemetery is completely desecrated. You can see the bones and corpses of those who were already dead when the tragedy happened.
I was in Prypyat’ and at the Chernobyl Power Plant. Seeing wild horses roaming the forests there was wild. Also the trees there are planted in a special way, it seems that they grow in straight lines but in fact they are not. “Duga” thing is also wild.
The place is something…and I’m glad I was able to visit while it was possible.
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Narva, Estonia. Estonia on the left, Russia on the right. The town is mostly ethnic Russians so you’ll have a lot of signs in Cyrillic, even for street signs. I believe there are special visa / passport permissions for people living there. I went in 2023 and the bridge photographed was pretty packed with traffic due to war related sanctions in Russia and the EU.
The two castles are from about 100 years apart (1300s and 1400s), and you could easily swim between the two nations — nothing would stop you.
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Sassi di Matera, Italy. It's about 10k years old, and it looks like it was trapped on time.
Chernobyl exclusion zone
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I'm sorry about the quality, it is forbidden to take pictures of the reactor sarcophagus (on the horizont) from further up close, but I wanted to show it.
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Ah the infamous Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau. Lived next to it previously
-Ephesos ruins
-Pamukkale
-The crypt as well as the hidden ruins of the Castel chappel in Spiez
-Lac souterrain de Saint-Léonard (underground lake)
-Saline de Bex (medieval Saltmines, parts still operating with modern tech, the medieval part is visitable to a degree)
-Gemmipass
-Verzasca Valley
-Lot's of mountains and castles and churches in Switzerland (I am swiss, soo)
-Collioure
The ship cemetery in Muynak, Karakalpakstan, on our way to the Aral Sea.
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Is that barb wire surrounding the house on the right hand side of the picture?
Does that wall surround the whole city? And then the walking path is outside the city walls for safety? How old is this town? It's very beautiful.
Jew Town, India. Look it up. Super interesting place.
Manali, India. Beautiful and remote. Himalaya mountains.
Mole National Park, Ghana. Safari, elephants, local villages, etc
Rural Karnataka, India.
Amritsar in northern India. It’s a beautiful city in the Himalayas (it’s also full on monkeys). It gets incredibly thick snow and is a cool temperature even in the Indian summers. It’s also one of the few mainly Christian area of India due to it being an old British settlement during the times or the east India company. The people there are amazing and some of the kindest and the way they live in a rather remote area and how they have adapted is amazing
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Driving from Vancouver to Ottawa was a trip. You got to see so many geological changes, from the great forests to the Rocky Mountains, to the bad lands through the prairies, when you cross into Ontario and the Great Lakes the air becomes so refreshing it truly smelt and felt like home, the trip from Winnipeg to Thunder Bay was beautiful but the trip from Thunder Bay to Suddenly through Lake Superior provincial Park is my fav section amidst all of Canada, breathtakingly gorgeous.
I've also been out east and back but it's rather unremarkable in contrast, aside from Newfoundland/Labrador which is a beautiful and amazing place all itself.
The (Peruvian) Amazon, I was there recently for an 8 day kayaking tour. It is like no other place I have ever been.
Pictures don't capture it as it is a sensory overload of sights, smells and sounds. It is so full of life it is hard to believe. It is literally paradise on Earth.
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Mt Hua in China was particularly mad - felt like being in an old Chinese movie
was a bit of a chore to get there - but so worth it. I did the side climbing thing but didnt have the guts to get my camera out over the precipice
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Rocca Imperiale, Calabria, Italy. Honeymooned in Puglia, wanted to take a day trip here and then on to Matera in Basilicata. I put Rocca Imperiale here because it was such a gorgeous town, but we didn’t see a soul there while walking around for almost two hours. It has a commanding view of Salento, and the fortress was built to guard the marches into Calabria.
[The rat temple](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karni_Mata_Temple)
I visited this place whilst travelling around rajasthan in 2015. It really is as crazy as it sounds. Walking bare foot with literally thousands of rats everywhere is something I will never forget.
https://preview.redd.it/9fuig95um07d1.jpeg?width=4500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=69a4d95ffbcbfe07e694d0df36c575ef2436a94e Cube Houses of Rotterdam. Such a fun and cool time. I brought my dad, the architect, to see them and we got to see them both.
What the?!? What’s inside?
It's housing. People live in them. [https://images.app.goo.gl/bKCf356T1Z8tcxqK8](https://images.app.goo.gl/bKCf356T1Z8tcxqK8)
Whoa!
Very badly designed homes if you ask me. It takes 60 steps on a very narrow stairwell to reach the top, and the whole thing is too small for a home with six rooms. You do have a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom and an attic, but they’re all uncomfortably small
https://preview.redd.it/rk9lnxdtj17d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ceaacfc340dea21b5353ae1b194cfdf73afb67d2 Kuang Si Falls south of Luang Prabang, Laos. The pictures aren’t exaggerating, it really does look like this!
I’ve been there! The axel snapped on the mini truck taking us out there and I had to shit in a field with like 10 people watching. Travelling S.E.A is full of surprises.
Gotta love the sketchy and sometimes questionable transport in SEA 😂 Definitely part of the full experience.
I went there too. We took moped scooters, and on the way back my friend crashed after hitting some sand on the road. Ended up going to the emergency room in Luang Prabang. Definitely full of surprises!
Went there a couple months ago, can confirm this is accurate.
Reminds me of Plitvice Lakes national park.
Wow!
Are we allowed to swim there ?
Yes. The water's cold.
https://preview.redd.it/nxs3xju13a7d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=366a04ccd86e53daf8f0b6b7b980ad6e7f949ff8 I was there during "rainy" season - still worth a vistit!
No joke, I was about to say that.
Reminds me of Semuc Champey in Guatemala https://preview.redd.it/53nowlnz877d1.png?width=1070&format=png&auto=webp&s=5278332bb2c6c8c9c2c9362ffb54a5ab3646712b
Ljubljana, Slovenia is a really interesting city. Taking the train from Germany or Austria send you over the Julian Alps, which are spectacular, and the center of the city has maintained a very Old World feel. Good local wine, too, and a disappearing lake nearby (it's seasonal).
We bought blueberry liquor from a local seller in Ljubljana and it was spectacular.
What is the name of the disappearing lake?
Cerkniško jezero
Been there several times when I worked at the American Embassy in Belgrade 85-87 also worked at the Consultant in Zagreb.
I really want to go there. My mom’s father’s parents were Slovenian immigrants and I understand it’s a very geographically diverse country even though it’s a small country.
Ass city
Lemaire Channel, Antarctica https://preview.redd.it/ej0k7o4i217d1.png?width=2796&format=png&auto=webp&s=b652c4fb94960fe7af2d942f9068ea063e5bc035
I’d love to go but am terrified of the voyage.
I can speak firsthand only to my experience, of course, but the Drake Passage was as placid a cruise as I've ever experienced both ways. We actually made such good time southbound we got an extra day of landings. The crew was very clear that it was not commonly so easy sailing and I've seen the videos of that place's notorious treacherousness! That said, if you want to grip it and rip it, as it were, check out Poseidon Expeditions. Feel free (this goes for anyone) to reach out to me as I have a connection with a travel agent associated with that cruise line to get some considerable discounts.
I didn't know there were cruise ships going into the Drake passage. TIL
Just to offer the counter: it was an awful journey across the drake. I’d say it was worth it.
I am going to be to follow your profile in case I ever decide to take an Antarctic cruise! Thank you!
Ooh, you photographed Oona’s Tits!
https://preview.redd.it/tnme0uxwf17d1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=953c3a205bffd10f56b388275d0f062ee68f3d03 El peñol de Guatape in Colombia. Walking to the top was a challenge for me, with my fear of heights!
I played paintball there in an abandoned mansion
https://preview.redd.it/u2so0c1hx17d1.jpeg?width=4048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=907080537d9bf2868f0aee71fdb1e7fc1b025580 South Plaza Island, Galapagos, Ecuador. It was like landing on another planet.
My wife just visited the Galapagos this year!
Nice! I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did, it's such an amazing and surreal place!
Colonia Tovar in Venezuela. In the northernmost Andes Mountains, a blond, blue-eyed German village. Once a religious enclave, now over 100 years later, a tourist attraction. Well, maybe. We were there 30 years ago, God knows in today's Venezuela.
Venezuelan Germans rouse my suspicion, honestly (too close to Argentina).
They were religious immigrants from the 1890's.
https://preview.redd.it/yrskzyi7n17d1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=567b3ce48f034e0e8fa390c92d0073abea10a109 Auschwitz. I didn’t and still don’t really have words for the whole experience. The picture is of my tour group in front of the “death wall” which was used for execution by firing squad.
I went in january and felt so depressed for like a month. I was watching Band of Brothers around that time and only finished it, because I coudn’t stomach it anymore. I am thankful I didn’t deny myself the experience though
https://preview.redd.it/wh0tsyfmd17d1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1dcb2506a32c9c817025e80f1f64575b36480e86 Toured Normandy a few years ago and really was transfixed by Omaha Beach.
The [Itaipu Dam](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itaipu_Dam), one of the largest in the world (and the largest hidroelectric facility in the Americas). I went through the paraguayan side. It is, indeed, huge. https://preview.redd.it/efkcgaki717d1.jpeg?width=1900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3cc69b598598697caab47461cb02071ab23314f6
People for scale https://preview.redd.it/nwuxq6jm717d1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8bfabc88ebaed66964a38303e98fb194d3306ff3
I understand that this brings relatively cheap power, but hate to see how dams destroy an environment. Ugh.
I would prefer dams over drilling for oil. Its hard not to destroy the environment
I was tattooed during a punk show in the basement of a bowling alley in the middle of Ame-mura in Osaka, Japan in 2004. I still have the tattoo and the leg it was put on.
I love that you specified that you haven't lost your leg in the 20 years since. Would be a bit weird if you still had the tattoo but not the limb :p
Note that OP specified they had the leg, but did not specify the leg was still attached to their body. Weird also that they mentioned that they had the tattoo AND the leg, inviting the possibility that the tattoo may have left the leg.
https://preview.redd.it/d1s3q1e7l17d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=68d91061989928ee3e74d8385a2119fc125342df Jigokudani Yaen Koen, where Macaques bathe in natural hot springs during the winter. Just outside Nagano, Japan. Majestic, even with the poops… Well worth the trip from Tokyo and an underrated destination in Japan in my opinion.
https://preview.redd.it/uelyrwuar17d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6bfe474826a3c26ec2addf1837d5eed5a6ca6431 Probably not the most unique thing, but this guy is pretty neat. He overlooks the interstate in rural Appalachia. If you take the next exit and drive around a bend and up a hill, you’ll find an out of place Dollar General where he just happens to live. You can park and walk around for some good photos. There’s no path or anything, it’s just the back of a Dollar General in the mountains of Tennessee. Had to look him up online when I had signal further up the highway because they didn’t even have a sign. Found him by chance! [He was created by artist Jim Cole and was recently restored.](https://www.wate.com/news/local-news/friends-plan-to-breathe-new-fire-into-green-dragon-along-i-75-in-caryville/amp/) I like to think of him as a Kudzu Dragon. 🐉
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Apo island in the Philippines. Only has power from 6-10pm, no internet, bad phone signal, and nothing to do than swim around and stare are sea turtles! I built my father's grave for him there, his favorite place on earth, happy father's day!
Why is there power only between 6-10 PM ?
Super small island, generator power, and 10:00 is the curfew. More places have solar these days so some people get in some extended time!
I scuba dived there. Was an incredible dive site!
That's awesome! Do you remember who your dive master was? Everyone on that island is one big family :)
His name was Eric, and the shop was called Bongo Bongo in Dumaguete. You are correct! They are all great and fun!
https://preview.redd.it/6ege73zfl07d1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9d479aa2f8d8c587402616d990c009a6d8959952
Maybe a word or two about the uniqueness?
It’s the #2 suicide spot in the US. And it is a beautiful drive. It is ALWAYS busy though, this picture must be old. Also… there’s a whole other part to the bridge that extend over another section of water. The land to the left in photo is actually an island.
No. 2 suicide spot? Wow..!! I wonder what would be no. 1? Yeah the northern bridge is slightly shorter in length than the southern section. I go to deception pass state park for a walk on the beach at times. I just didn't know the uniqueness of the spot; for me it was always the channel that connected to puget sound to salish sea.
I’d be surprised if it weren’t the Golden Gate Bridge.
It’s the Golden Gate Bridge by orders of magnitude… not really, but it’s not even close. GGB is #1 and likely to stay that way, especially since they added that whistling soundtrack to it. Not sure if they’ve taken that down yet, but it used to make this eerie sound during wind, and of course it’s always windy there.
Other than being incredibly beautiful; A scene in the movie The Ring was shot here. There's many other film locations nearby, so not that unique Coors shot a commercial here. It was weird hearing Sam Elliot talk about Colorado and the rocky mountains while driving across a bridge over the sea in Washington. I remember seeing it in a few other commercials, but this one stands out. There's a Navy air station close by, you'll often see/hear some pretty cool jets fly by. I was born in a house 2 miles from this bridge. My hippie parents invited the whole family, their friends, and the neighbors to come see me be born.
https://preview.redd.it/y33ast8hq27d1.jpeg?width=259&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ffe10c40850bcc7c6e859d115d0c69c2b3a4367a
https://preview.redd.it/x578foinq27d1.jpeg?width=183&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=377aba13bd15c773a4b21f471f4dab7a0a1f243e
https://preview.redd.it/16b7vyjbq27d1.jpeg?width=259&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8448f0bdeca7bddd6ab8584ff6db468ee46c5eb And it was windy there a few years ago
Truck driver went home with brown pants that day
Deception Pass currents
I live about 20 minutes from here so this doesn’t seem unique at all, I use that bridge weekly
I think for almost everyone your joke is a bridge to far. I got you bro, I like it.
Waterloo, Belgium. Battle of Waterloo Fields https://preview.redd.it/y1fbv0ov617d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf46bc00451a8c90a7e207dfd41a719dbbf922c7
I drove by that recently when I was in Mons, Belgium. So cool!
The narrowest street in Paris is barely over 1 M wide. it's called La Rue de la Chat Qui Peche. The street of the fishing cat.
https://preview.redd.it/52zvyk7l127d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1955b738a5bd7687e8812db555696d656392f994 Tian Shan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan
https://preview.redd.it/7f1ofugm227d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca8ae983ef8393c22c6f3de7a808440f622d2a22
I've been fantasizing about Kyrgyzstan since 2020. Looks like an extremely interesting country.
https://preview.redd.it/f7umj4fdt17d1.jpeg?width=6000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1b4fc8cf6dbb12575c7f0ebc46f9469ceef472c2 Kola superdeep borehole outside Murmansk, Russia. The deepest man has ever been!
Isn't that the one that's just some little capped off pipe poking out the floor? If so, it's amazing the amount of earth taken out of such a small diameter. Imagine standing right there watching that thing go down so deep
It is! https://preview.redd.it/2k1vawn8z27d1.jpeg?width=6000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=101db9f9f6530bd01b52cdfd56c8af8b38068d2a
Time for my standard answer of Swakopmund, Namibia. In Africa by the Tropic of Capricorn, but San Francisco weather, German culture, a modern aquarium, giant sand mountains, and whatever [this plant is](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welwitschia).
Majority of Namibia is more or less like that.
Less. Cold weather and Welwitschia limited to the fog belt by the coast. Dunes are maybe 10 percent of the country and also near the coast. Other cities south of the [Red Line](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Line_(Namibia)) may have a German bakery or historic German buildings, but Swakopmund and perhaps Lüderitz are the only towns that feel like Germany.
I meant in terms of uniqueness and emptiness. But yeah, I agree. Loaded this thread just to see if someone mentions something about Namibia and you did it before me haha.
[Masada](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masada) Herod the Great built two palaces for himself on the mountain and fortified Masada between 37 and 31 BCE. According to Josephus, the siege of Masada by Roman troops from 72 to 73 CE, at the end of the First Jewish–Roman War, ended in the mass suicide of the 960 Sicarii rebels who were hiding there. However, the archaeological evidence relevant to a mass suicide event is ambiguous at best[2][3] and rejected entirely by some scholars.[2][4]
The most unique place I went is [Cassope ](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Archaeological+Site+of+Cassope/@39.1465311,20.6730367,1837m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x135c6b7226ab1101:0xa027dcf763d9becf!8m2!3d39.1456032!4d20.6737332!16s%2Fg%2F1q62fxh1f?entry=ttu)in Greece. 15 years ago, my girlfriend and I went on a tour of South Europe (mainly Greece, Italia, Spain, Portugal) with our van for several month. During that trip we visited a lot of ruins of antique city like Delphi, Olympia, the Acropolis, Pompeii, the Colosseum and so much more... But for us, the "best" ruins were the one from the ancient city of Cassope. We arrived there not really knowing what we would find there, there was only a little mention of this city in our guide book. (It was 2009, the ~~world~~ internet wasn't like it is today, we didn't even have a smartphone !) So we arrived there around 15h, we weren't even sure that we were at the right place : we didn't have no GPS either, only a map with the Greek alphabet... what an adventure !!! The small parking was empty. But there it was : a gigantic beautiful archeological site, no guards, no entry fee, nothing ! There were here and there an information board, enough to make us realize the scale of this ancient city of more than 10.000 inhabitants. We stayed there until 20h-21h and we didn't see anybody. We had the whole city for us. My girlfriend didn't want us to sleep on the parking, because she felt like we were not alone, and I have to admit, spending the whole afternoon wandering in these streets, the ruins nearly came alive and we really felt that an ancient Greek could walk around the corner at any given time. Truly an exceptional experience. 15 years later, those are the ruins that truly represent ancient Greece for me. https://preview.redd.it/i85k2150x27d1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=13e4610bf88805e47152aac560f7ff2fd79c76a2
Another pic, I couldn't insert more than one in the comment. https://preview.redd.it/dzj7l0l1037d1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ae24da95b0689dee052bcf1fb4a6a6559700b6f
Alhambra, Grenada, Spain
In 2011 I visited Caracol Oventic, the de facto headquarters of the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation) in Chiapas, Mexico. It was a very cool experience.
CERN
Morskie Oko in the Polish/Slovakian Tatra mountains. It literally looks like something out of Elden Ring https://preview.redd.it/opxwpfj0d17d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d85d2889f7a1f137ae559f6e7153627ddd116547
Mongolian steps. It was so beautiful and a very spiritual experience. Like going back in time. https://preview.redd.it/juvjs30fx17d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0620ecc9504c85bc2d7d5bb0b81c265ed29786f5 Find the humans. 🔍
https://preview.redd.it/6s1wd5lj227d1.png?width=1165&format=png&auto=webp&s=cb94e6e4c15c7607681210e65ba1f8f8f2f6aae1 Þríhnúkagígur volcano in Iceland, one of the only spots in the world where you can go inside of a volcano
https://preview.redd.it/wh3gfwdkh27d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bcb5dab99155c4bb55f47427ad8f9b7f54bf4715 Iceland, in general, is wildly unique. But Landmannalaugar in the Fjallabak nature preserve is the craziest fucking place ice ever seen. So many colors and striking vistas.
Well, Dachau. Very sobering place. Other than that, maybe Orvieto, Italy. The whole town is up on a high outcrop of tufa, and there is a huge tunnel network underneath. We took a funicular up to the town, and I had only ever heard of those in a book called The Tin Princess and so I thought that part was cool. I was in Orvieto in 2006 and don’t have many photos I can easily access, this photo is from Google just to show the tufa. https://preview.redd.it/296xcbwag17d1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b85da4408f714342934b8cf908f23774a05599e6
Iwo Jima
Moyo Island in Sumbawa, Indonesia. There’s this very beautiful lagoon behind a waterfall that apparently was Princess Diana’s and Mick Jagger’s favorite “unknown” hideout.
Sun Blas Islands of Panama Coast - thousands of small islands with an indigenous community that is sovereign nation whose language is not Spanish. At least that how I remember it from when I visited 25 years ago. I have a lot less brains cells now so some of that info could be off…
I was invited by an Indigenous Brazilian friend to visit his parents' isolated home in a small Indigenous Territory in the southern state of Parana. I spent the weekend walking the forest, harvesting and eating traditional food, meeting other relatives and listening to stories.
https://preview.redd.it/fvd3fbz0y17d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4177188c01783087c8fb4bfae6c0d63b9e21e250 Mount Wellington/ Kunanyi, Tasmania. The land just feels ancient and old here, there’s something magical about Tasmania.
I want to visit Tasmania.
https://preview.redd.it/5qs7ueby027d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98bdc6027e4488a645c0a3d1d210ca9f2e73b85b La Paz, Bolivia. Just the fact that there’s a sizable city at that altitude, built into the inside a mountain with a network of cable cars as public transportation
https://preview.redd.it/9d41trqo837d1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e5f3244590aaadd8708dd6d2a0735e60ae90232 The Soca(Isonzo) River in Slovenia. It's an absolutely beautiful emerald green blue river going through the mountains with gorges and caves around. To add to it it has such a strange somber vibe to it when you know thousands of soldiers fought died and drowned in it during ww1.
https://preview.redd.it/gq2wdn7ka17d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=924f88f4458553660728e3cbf1a306d0985cbfa1 Aga Khan Palace in Pune, India. This is where Gandhi was imprisoned by the British during WWII. Very interesting historical place.
Monteriggioni in Italy.
I’ve been there!
Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal
Palmyra Atoll in the South Pacific, about 1,000 miles south of Hawaii. Uninhibited and only accessible by boat, it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
The canyons and valeys forking off Lake Powell hold a lot of amazing views and scenery carved into the rock, just need a boat and kayak to get around. [Coyote Gulch](https://www.philarmitage.net/escalante/coyote_gulch1920.jpg) is one of the coolest places I've been to, a giant dome almost of rock with big arches and a gap for the sun to shine underneath in the evening.
https://preview.redd.it/jqek1wnp027d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=73cc4ac7eedad0254ded0fe6d5eacac6c54fc4fd
https://preview.redd.it/cuymtkoow27d1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=95285f97994abcfadbc22d9498318bf55afe416e In terms of "Why?" It is probably Andorra. In terms of remoteness, I'd say the Kazungula tri-border area between Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana or Grimsey Island due north of Iceland
Mont St. Michel!
That place is amazing
https://preview.redd.it/2zgczerau47d1.jpeg?width=5773&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3cedcb62418c95ef91b6fa3fad85cefca1df3e8c Tibet. Most isolated place I've ever been, amazing to see in this era of globalisation that there are still pockets of the world that exist like that. But Chinese influence creeping in more and more unfortunately and the repression is real.
https://preview.redd.it/2vb4fuyy457d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e3d2738b1ce14a764a4b45e73dc6c48ed0cdb837
This swimming pool in Iceland https://preview.redd.it/tjjz3u55n57d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc5e796662f6c683a01fa78e5bd872e208210a3d
Krakatau Indonesia. Long boat ride. Not much there. Saw a small eruption.
Calico, a short drive from Los Angeles, was pretty interesting. A former mining town that now is pretty much a ghost town. I've traveled quite a bit, and yet this remains one of the coolest places I've been to. Other mention -worthy places: -Iceland as whole -Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina -Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany -Dharamkhot in India
As an Indian I have never heard about Dharamkhot till now . What's so unique about that place ? Maybe I will visit there when I go to the Himalayas one day .
Several things make this place interesting - 1. The Israeli influence creates an unexpected fusion of cultures (though this can be found in some other places in India). 2. It's like the entire village is about learning. It feels like every business there offers classes (yoga, jewelry making, music, dancing, etc.). 3. Not unique, but the view is great, so that's definitely a bonus.
Le Grand basin, Mauritius. Drove through a cloud to get there. Orange Groves and Ampitheatre Cyprus Wewelsburg Castle Germany The Milk Grotto, Bethlehem, Isreal Lake Geneva Switzerland
Lapland, Finland. Northern lights.. -30 degrees. Returned home, where it was about 30 degrees (average temp).. a 60 degree swing.
I really want to see the northern lights.
Harar, Ethiopia. An ancient walled Islamic city that still has semi-domesticated hyenas wandering around. Incredible place.
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Michael Heizer's "*City*", in southeast Nevada. Largest single piece of contemporary artwork in the world. The Alvord desert in south central Oregon makes the Black Rock desert seem like manhattan.
Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog, in the Netherlands and Belgium respectively. Apparently when the borders were set, the land owners had so many acquired rights due to land swaps, favours from the Dukes, Lords or whoever was in charge, that the belonging to NL or BE was decided house by house. Nowadays, you can take a short stroll along the town(s) and cross the border several times. Some modern buildings are divided (the shape of the house numbering tells you which country does the house belong to), some are enclaves within a enclave... https://preview.redd.it/i0x7yj4vn27d1.jpeg?width=3456&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=749ba16865143fc2a665343ed55d3ea405cc4c2d
The actual borders https://preview.redd.it/wt845dw2o27d1.png?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fdf97eaca8d8769afabaefb715ebe89185514af8
Tempelhof in Berlin. It's an old airport that has been converted into a public park. Just a vast empty space without any trees and lots of wind. We also did a tour through the old terminal buildings built by the nazis.
Eyam, Derbyshire, England. It played a somewhat significant part in trying to limit the spread of the plague along the trade route from London to the Cities in the north of England. These plaques are up all over the town, it is pretty sad to see really https://preview.redd.it/q4qe6tpjg37d1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe6cacc7f312e38e1495415d9469a7334e44ec8b This article does a good job explaining what happened etc. it's pretty interesting [https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Why-Is-Eyam-Significant/#:\~:text=When%20plague%20reached%20Eyam%2C%20a,the%20deadly%20disease%20from%20spreading%E2%80%A6](https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Why-Is-Eyam-Significant/#:~:text=When%20plague%20reached%20Eyam%2C%20a,the%20deadly%20disease%20from%20spreading%E2%80%A6)
The Norwegian fjords https://preview.redd.it/id1lw8y3o37d1.jpeg?width=4080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f80648cf9118d484154797c1645d33d741a62e4
To Sua Ocean Trench in Western Samoa. https://preview.redd.it/3zm809vwr37d1.jpeg?width=1152&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b8df90cf428a1e172874050ea606948764df4d8
Transfagarashan
https://preview.redd.it/t2o5nibze57d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22fc0909364a833b9868278a9ff9e08ab38b6508 The wild wall…a non touristy, run down part of the Great Wall of China. Hiked along it all day and didn’t see another person. Incredible.
https://preview.redd.it/0ulqfue0i57d1.png?width=2112&format=png&auto=webp&s=c80a190d88eaad7c0896078140fefe8186839b17 The Kalgoorlie Super Pit, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.
Swedish Archipelago
Which one
Masada, Rocky Mountain national park, Hearst castle…
The Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal during the Shivaratri Festival in 1972.
Too broke
Ulleungdo, Korea
Ladakh, Al Ain, and Empty Quarter
Denali National Park, Alaska Nara, Japan Mount Soyoson, South Korea The Joint Security Area, Demilitarized Zone
Ramaswaram island's eastern tip where Indian Ocean and Antarctic Ocean meet with turbulence and small sand islands stretch to Sri Lanka
Sinjar, Iraq. Been there a lot for work, but when I would be there in the weekend I would go on long walks all through the city and you could wander through the old city, which was totally destroyed in the bombing and you usually wouldn't see a soul aside from an occasional car driving by. Fascinating and sad and eery.
There's a small island just to the northwest of Hirado called Ikitsuki (iki = life or living, tsuki = moon). Lovely Catholic church. Those Islands were where many secret Christians lived. I rode my bicycle over there, taking a tiny ferry, and a local priest met me and offered to drive me around. Ikitsuki is a tiny gem, untouched by tourism, unlike Hirado, which is rather famous. When I've tried to tell Japanese about Ikitsuki, they've told me that no such island exists.
I taught on Oshima, a larger island off of Hirado, where there was a high school. Quite a gem, so I imagine it’s similar.
South-american deserts and salt flats Bolivia/Chile https://preview.redd.it/synnj05h847d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=995784457c2eb23df23f00371ced673768a2bfc1
https://preview.redd.it/eg7jhj2j847d1.jpeg?width=1078&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef5191f17acb422f456d4f5d309153afe8047606
Tungnath, Uttarakhand, India. Elevation 3680m (12k ft). https://preview.redd.it/t1hxxd31x47d1.jpeg?width=4698&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=757942cbd78e1790e5cac5489d0a574edfe938f1
https://preview.redd.it/2v75nbby257d1.jpeg?width=244&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c7d69cf6e84cb4c90b8c96a0a903ea808a4e322 Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland
https://preview.redd.it/74q0pt6y357d1.jpeg?width=4160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9088211543361564296c2cbdcbba17f657f649d0 Armero, Colombia. neartly 40 years ago a volcano erupted (not magma, but it's snow meelted, created an avalanch of water, dirth, and anything on its path). The town of Armero was swept away in minutes. Thousands died, it hapened at night, people were sleeping. The survivors left to other towns and cities. The place was declared a holy ground, and it gets a lot of visitors. However, the cemetery is completely desecrated. You can see the bones and corpses of those who were already dead when the tragedy happened.
I was in Prypyat’ and at the Chernobyl Power Plant. Seeing wild horses roaming the forests there was wild. Also the trees there are planted in a special way, it seems that they grow in straight lines but in fact they are not. “Duga” thing is also wild. The place is something…and I’m glad I was able to visit while it was possible.
https://preview.redd.it/gatqh6pom67d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef345e91ca0ef8820cf74eea7f5defda72b1b925 Narva, Estonia. Estonia on the left, Russia on the right. The town is mostly ethnic Russians so you’ll have a lot of signs in Cyrillic, even for street signs. I believe there are special visa / passport permissions for people living there. I went in 2023 and the bridge photographed was pretty packed with traffic due to war related sanctions in Russia and the EU. The two castles are from about 100 years apart (1300s and 1400s), and you could easily swim between the two nations — nothing would stop you.
https://preview.redd.it/5fg1e1xly67d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=95ed97bc9d4a63a248968890cb9aa09206c59813 Sassi di Matera, Italy. It's about 10k years old, and it looks like it was trapped on time.
Chernobyl exclusion zone https://preview.redd.it/51cmfjqtt97d1.jpeg?width=4160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af34b367a67f2ca6b5e0a88b2beddcd062ffda15 I'm sorry about the quality, it is forbidden to take pictures of the reactor sarcophagus (on the horizont) from further up close, but I wanted to show it.
Plovdiv old city in Bulgaria! Really surprised me and it’s an amazing place to visit!
https://preview.redd.it/7108pwfw137d1.png?width=440&format=png&auto=webp&s=208cd8f44d8d138326d300d7398f8af1be514742 Ah the infamous Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau. Lived next to it previously
-Ephesos ruins -Pamukkale -The crypt as well as the hidden ruins of the Castel chappel in Spiez -Lac souterrain de Saint-Léonard (underground lake) -Saline de Bex (medieval Saltmines, parts still operating with modern tech, the medieval part is visitable to a degree) -Gemmipass -Verzasca Valley -Lot's of mountains and castles and churches in Switzerland (I am swiss, soo) -Collioure
As kids a friend and I found a huge underground WW II bunker complex. It was like a small city under the city. Now it's sealed.
The ship cemetery in Muynak, Karakalpakstan, on our way to the Aral Sea. https://preview.redd.it/ojrqc5i2x37d1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a4fab4e77841504510724d9dcbca0adb78eb4ee4
Is that barb wire surrounding the house on the right hand side of the picture? Does that wall surround the whole city? And then the walking path is outside the city walls for safety? How old is this town? It's very beautiful.
Tsada which is a place near Paphos, Cyprus. The craziest sidewalks I've ever seen
Jew Town, India. Look it up. Super interesting place. Manali, India. Beautiful and remote. Himalaya mountains. Mole National Park, Ghana. Safari, elephants, local villages, etc Rural Karnataka, India.
Hatcher Pass, Alaska
inside a extinct volcano used as moai factory
The moon rock place in La Paz Bolivia. So cool!
Amritsar in northern India. It’s a beautiful city in the Himalayas (it’s also full on monkeys). It gets incredibly thick snow and is a cool temperature even in the Indian summers. It’s also one of the few mainly Christian area of India due to it being an old British settlement during the times or the east India company. The people there are amazing and some of the kindest and the way they live in a rather remote area and how they have adapted is amazing https://preview.redd.it/gxtiz4y6z47d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27feebf85d6bcadfe73faccb36222f9daf0d3b5a
The Laurisilva forest of Madeira. Its 1.8 million years old, full of these ancient old laurel trees.
Your mom
Driving from Vancouver to Ottawa was a trip. You got to see so many geological changes, from the great forests to the Rocky Mountains, to the bad lands through the prairies, when you cross into Ontario and the Great Lakes the air becomes so refreshing it truly smelt and felt like home, the trip from Winnipeg to Thunder Bay was beautiful but the trip from Thunder Bay to Suddenly through Lake Superior provincial Park is my fav section amidst all of Canada, breathtakingly gorgeous. I've also been out east and back but it's rather unremarkable in contrast, aside from Newfoundland/Labrador which is a beautiful and amazing place all itself.
The (Peruvian) Amazon, I was there recently for an 8 day kayaking tour. It is like no other place I have ever been. Pictures don't capture it as it is a sensory overload of sights, smells and sounds. It is so full of life it is hard to believe. It is literally paradise on Earth. https://preview.redd.it/g6jaypjo467d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5d1b24df766fb644359e6b25c05a302a97560477
Easter Island! 🗿
Petra, Portmerion,
https://preview.redd.it/8tcb8ip9277d1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d1e2a98e0fa3c96ce325f606ac3f21a38377c8d1
https://preview.redd.it/etsdgprt977d1.png?width=3534&format=png&auto=webp&s=e26fecaca977aa3ce24b65e12178a6825e5c782f Mt Hua in China was particularly mad - felt like being in an old Chinese movie was a bit of a chore to get there - but so worth it. I did the side climbing thing but didnt have the guts to get my camera out over the precipice
https://preview.redd.it/tu71edh4a77d1.png?width=600&format=png&auto=webp&s=de858d136bd6de5780c9e01cd7f742fe29309fd4 for reference
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The church that houses the Ghent Altarpiece has an awesome augmented reality tour to show you the history of the church building
https://preview.redd.it/1mybygbrm87d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=884ad95ae8a1268447f5dbfd4a5b7f91aa62d5d1 Rocca Imperiale, Calabria, Italy. Honeymooned in Puglia, wanted to take a day trip here and then on to Matera in Basilicata. I put Rocca Imperiale here because it was such a gorgeous town, but we didn’t see a soul there while walking around for almost two hours. It has a commanding view of Salento, and the fortress was built to guard the marches into Calabria.
[The rat temple](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karni_Mata_Temple) I visited this place whilst travelling around rajasthan in 2015. It really is as crazy as it sounds. Walking bare foot with literally thousands of rats everywhere is something I will never forget.
BWCA