What Have You Seen?

[Ignorant]

In order of most striking/greatest impact to less striking

1) Auschwitz/Birkenau - the scale alone is terrifying. Took me about a week to recover from the evil of those places

2) St. Peter's and St. Paul's tombs

3) Raphael's frescoes before entering the Sistine Chapel, and then of course the Sistine Chapel itself

4) Dublin's Chester Beatty Library (contains countless ancient manuscripts from different cultures)

5) Tombs of Galileo, Michelangelo, and Machiavelli are all in a single church in Florence (Santa Croce).

6) The Shroud of Turin

7) The Mosaics of Ravenna

8) Mt. Vesuvius/Pompeii

9) The Alamo

10) The Tower of London

11) Michelangelo's Moses

12) The Island of Elba (the island of Napoleon's exile)

13) Octoberfest

14) Chateau d'If in Marseilles (the prison from The Count of Monte Cristo)

[brewer]

For those that have seen the Alamo, what's in the basement?

[TheRealJoeFish]

I mentioned Gettysburg but in the spirit of the thread here are the top five others (in no particular order):

1. Historical Philadelphia (Independence Hall, Liberty Bell, etc)
2. Historical London (London Tower, Big Ben, etc)
3. Historical Edinburgh (tour through old street and cemeteries and such)
4. Disney World (honestly, I consider this a testament to modern humanity, much like ancient monuments and cities are testaments to pat civilizations)
5. Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (just got back from a week there. home of the Wright Brothers' famous Dec, 1903 airplane flight)

[Alex K]

For those that have seen the Alamo, what's in the basement?

Pfff, this was 19 years ago. I don't remember seeing a basement though.

[Ignorant]

For those that have seen the Alamo, what's in the basement?

Please hold all questions to the end of the tour (go to the 2m22s mark):

[Alex K]

In the not so fun department in Germany and surrounding countries, I forgot KZ Buchenwald, the remains of the Berlin Wall + fortifications, the Westwall, which ran 200 yard behind our apartment, and the German bunkers along the atlantic, which already left theor impression in 3 year old me, because they run smack through the middle of our former holiday resort beaches.

Charlemagne's church in my former home, Aachen, left an impression as it was once the power center of Europe, so to speak. Culturally, one of the weirdest things was visiting the former nuclear physics city Protvino in the middle of nowhere near Moskow. It was built in the 50s or 60s and is largely unchanged. A monument to soviet cold war science.