Sightseeing in Your City

[Jordan]

If you came to my city, I would take an hour south> TO DALLAS!

• Dallas Zoo
• Fort Worth Zoo
• The Texas State Fair
• Science Place inside the Fair
• The Myerson Symphony Center (I have played there)
• Dallas Museum (Featuring the treasures of the Orient)
• The Original Six Flags over Texas
• Reunion Arena (Dallas Mavericks)
• Reunion Tower Resturant (Eat while rotating 15 stories above Dallas)
• The Galleria mall
• Dallas Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Texas Stadium
• The Ballpark at Arlington (AmeriQuest Field)
• Very first Jail in Texas

Theres more but I cant think of anything else.

Cheers,
Jordan

 

[Vance]

San Francisco, CA

*Lombard St, the crookest street
*Pier 39
*Ghiaderadelli Factory
*Chinatown
*Little Italy
*Russian Hill
*Nob Hill
*Tedorlain
*Muni Subway
*Winchester Mystery House (one hour away from SF)
*San Francisco State University
*Castro section--Gay/Lesbian mecca
*Presidio
*Washington/Cherry Sts where Zodiac murdered a taxi driver long ago
*Levansworth St--the steepest street
*the Frjtas restaurant (yummy)
*famous Haight and Ashbury sts
*Cole St blue house where Charles Manson and his people used to live
*Golden Gate Bridge
*Golden Gate Park


Geez, I do miss SF already!

Palace of Fine Arts
Squaresoft HQ
Financial district
Civic Center
Cliff House
Beach Blanket Babylon
Napa & Sonoma Wine Country
Yosemite National Park
Monterey & Carmel
Muir Woods & Sausalito
Painted Ladies
Many more and more...

There is like 500 different places to visit in San Francisco alone... I would list more but 500 places, forget it... just visit there and have fun. to San Francisco

 

[SassyOne]

Palace of Fine Arts
Squaresoft HQ
Financial district
Civic Center
Cliff House
Beach Blanket Babylon
Napa & Sonoma Wine Country
Yosemite National Park
Monterey & Carmel
Muir Woods & Sausalito
Painted Ladies
Many more and more...

There is like 500 different places to visit in San Francisco alone... I would list more but 500 places, forget it... just visit there and have fun. to San Francisco

Dont forget Half Moon Bay, Monterey, Carmel, Big Sur, Santa Rosa, various musuems there, Pt Reyes Park, Santa Clara, etc...............it is an endless list

 

[OldNavyGirl]

more

chicago cubs
chicago bears
chicago white sox
chicago bulls
taste of chicago
casino
couple of museums - field museum, science museum, shedd aquarium
the hancock observerty
chicago trolley
buckingham fountain
sear towers skydeck
mazes
many more...

check this site out.... http://www.chicagotraveler.com/attractions.htm

 

[Fly Free]

There is like 500 different places to visit in San Francisco alone... I would list more but 500 places, forget it... just visit there and have fun. to San Francisco

YES i agree Magatsu!!!

to San Francisco -- i LOVED my visit in SF back in the summer of 2002 -- that ROCKED!

 

[kuifje75]

Salt Lake City, Utah

* Temple Square (of course!)
* ZCMI and Crossroads shopping malls
* In winter, Gallivan Plaza for ice skating
* Family History Library to check for genealogy
* Gateway Plaza, which is a nice outdoor shopping mall
* Ensign Peak, which is like 30 to 60 minutes hiking up mountain to see entire SLC and Bountiful areas, including SLC airport, The Great Salt Lake and Antelope Island
* Trolley Square (another shopping mall)
* Memory Grove Creek Park (great for bicycling and looking out for rattlesnakes)
* Red Butte Garden (at Univ of Utah, good all year long)
* Olympic Stadium, especially during the Utes home football games
* Abravham Centre (music hall, but they have this great glass art sculpture)
* Clark Planetarium
* Millcreek Canyon
* Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons, home of several skiing resorts and many awesome trails for hiking and bicycling
* 9th and 9th (my home!) and Sugarhouse District, which are like the Greenwich district of NYC for SLC
* The art museum at Univ. of Utah
* International Peace Garden

Outside SLC
* Park City: 20 minutes east of SLC, home to great shops, outlets and great atmosphere. Skilift takes you from town centre up to the mountain.
* Kamas District: A large area of beautiful mountains east of Park City. Home of the Lower Unitas Mountains. The Upper Unitas Mountains is home to Utah's highest peak, King's Peak
* Flaming Gorge (north of Kamas District)
* Bear Lake (1 1/2 hours north of SLC)
* Promontory Point (about 1 hr north of SLC, site where the trains from West and East were joined together)
* Bonneville Salt Flats, it is a desert made from dried salt where Salt Lake dried up over millions of years. It is said to be the flatest area on the world, and a lot of cars race there to set world records for speed
* Moab, Utah (2 hrs 45 min from SLC), home to many national and state parks, such as Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Dead Horse State Park, etc...
* Canyon Reef National Park (1 hr 45 min from SLC)
* Zion National Park (about 4 to 5 hours from SLC)
* Four Corners Terroritial Park (owned by the Navajo Nations), site where the states Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona meets
* For hiker friends, several peaks in Wasatch and Unitas Mountains, such as Mt. Timpanogos, Mt. Baldy, etc...
* (7 hours from SLC) Las Vegas
* (4 hrs from SLC) Jackson Hole, WY; Great Tetons National Park and Yellowstone National Park

 

[Reba]

I noticed that several people posted Edgar Allan Poe places to visit. I guess a person could keep busy just going from one Poe place to the next.

EAP Room, The Univeristy of Virginia
http://www.student.virginia.edu/~ravens/poe-rm.php

EAP National Historic Site, Philadelphia
http://www.ushistory.org/tour/tour_poe.htm

EAP Gravesite, Baltimore, MD
http://asylumeclectica.com/sightseer/us/md/poe/grave.htm

EAP House and Museum, Baltimore, MD
http://www.eapoe.org/balt/poehse.htm#events
http://www.poemuseum.org/index.html

EAP Cottage, The Bronx, NY
http://www.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/about/poecottage.html

...and even my Charleston, SC:
Fort Moultrie and Sullivan's Island, settings of "The Gold Bug" by EAP
http://www.literarytraveler.com/edgarallanpoe/poe_sullivansisland.htm

Am I missing any other places that honor Poe?