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altoringer

Now retired, I'm trying to keep my reputation alive as a traveler to exotic places. Well, at least exotic according to my friends. I've ridden a camel in the Gobi Desert, snorkeled with the dolphins in the Azores, climbed a glacier in Patagonia, and tried shark meat in Iceland. Recently I climbed into the Great Pyramid of Giza. One of the highlights of my trip to Madagascar was the chance to see the coelacanth. Not bad for a retired librarian!

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Places visited in Trongsa, Bhutan

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Places visited in West Chester, Pennsylvania

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Elfreth's Alley

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Added by jhnmcarthur

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Monongahela Incline

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Added by brickhound

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Shofuso Japanese House and Garden

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Added by kandrews

Wall, South Dakota

Wall Drug

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Custer, South Dakota

Crazy Horse Memorial

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Bayard, Nebraska

Chimney Rock

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

thomasharper

Added by thomasharper

Three Forks, Montana

Madison Buffalo Jump State Park

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

Molly McBride Jacobson

Added by Molly McBride Jacobson

West Glacier, Montana

Going-to-the-Sun Road

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

canuck

Added by canuck

Casper, Wyoming

Independence Rock

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Old Faithful Geyser

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

Mark Casey

Added by Mark Casey

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Morning Glory Pool

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

Dylan

Devils Tower, Wyoming

Devils Tower

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Added by ekoptev

New Orleans, Louisiana

National World War II Museum

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

Added by ekoptev

New Orleans, Louisiana

Lafayette Cemetery

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Evergreen, Colorado

Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

thomasharper

Added by thomasharper

Alamosa, Colorado

Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Garden of the Gods

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

Added by smash0gre

Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

Mesa Verde National Park

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

wythe

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

Wedding Palace

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Geysir Glíma Restaurant

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

Added by gretchenmora

Snæfellsjökull

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

Added by crisurdiales

Gullfoss (Golden Falls)

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

RHyzer

Added by RHyzer

Jökulsárlón

Iceland's largest lagoon is home to stunning multi-colored icebergs.

Dampo

Grindavík, Iceland

Blue Lagoon

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

Allison

Added by Allison