Non-U.S. Resident Question

I was visiting with a relative about places you would love to visit in the world and there were obvious answers like the Egyptian pyramids, the Great Wall in China, Angel Falls, the Galapagos Islands etc. It got me wondering what places a visitor to the U.S.would want to see and, rather than guess, I thought I’d go straight to the experts to get some answers.

If you were visiting the U.S. what places would be on your must see list?

Natural beauty, mostly. Like the grand canyon, or that forest with the huge trees.

Mount Rushmore, the Rockies, Niagara falls, the desert mesas, Mississipi, the bayou.

Sequoia National Park. A good friend came to visit LA. We went to Sequoia, Natural History Museum, Griffith Observatory, Hollywood, and some other places. LA is neat but it wouldn’t be my first choice.

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I was to California once, some of the most boring weeks of my life.

My family was really interested in the Grand Canyon and such, though, as well as the Midway and Las Vegas.

I would rather go to either the north-west and see the forests, or to one of the older cities in the New England area and gawk at the architecture.

Insert obligatory Colorado beauty reference here

^ loads to see and do in Colorado. I wouldn’t mind living there some day.

Yellowstone National Park leaps to mind. Aside from that, I don’t really know; I’ve never been one for touristy crap. I guess you could go to Washington, DC and look at all the enormous white phallic symbols. Go to NYC and see where the towers stood (then get the fuck out, because NYC is a shithole). Go to New Orleans and make fun of people’s accents.

Disregarding the tourist shit: If you for some reason end up in Kirkland, WA, you could play Whirlyball, which is like lacrosse in bumper cars. Seattle, WA has the Pike Place Market, which is fun to peruse. The Experience Music Project is also in Seattle, and it’s pretty fuckin’ cool. In Portland, OR, there’s Powell’s City of Books, which is an independent bookstore that is two stories and covers an entire city block. I could spend days in there and never get bored.

Yellowstone, Redwood, Yosemite, Zion, Voyageurs, Sequoia, Shenandoah, Mesa Verde (to please Rossman), Kings Canyon and Glacier.

And while I’m at Glacier, I might as well hop the border and visit better-America.

I think it depends, really, on what you want to see. If you want natural beauty, see above suggestions. If you want other things, you’ll have to be more specific. :slight_smile:

Visit Milwaukee we have a Fonz statue. Clearly its the most majestic thing in the US.

Loads to see everywhere. The United States is an ecologically diverse nation. Tundra to tropics, woodlands to desert.

Should go see a Hooters.

Our museums are pretty nice, imo. Especially the National Infantry Museum down in Fort Benning and the fuck ton of museums up in D.C.

But I love history, so I guess you could say I’m a bit biased.

If you’re headed to D.C., the Smithsonians are fucking ace.

Come to Ohio because… probably something to do with astronauts or planes.

I’ve always wanted to travel to the US but I’m always short on money and I don’t think being french will help me other than being laughed upon :stuck_out_tongue:

Absolutely not. American women like the language so your accent would automatically make you cute.

Yeah, I’ve really only heard men make french jokes.

And have free admission^^

Texas is a pretty cool place. Not a whole lot of tourist hot spots I guess, but there’s a lot to see and do. If you come to San Antonio, you got art museums, a zoo, amusement parks, the Alamo, the Riverwalk, Spurs games, and a wide variety of the most delicious, most heart-stoppingest foods ever. And Austin has a big music scene, lots of big bands play there. Saw Wolfmother there myself. South Texas is also as close as you can get to going to Mexico without all the gang wars.

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