The Most Interesting...

[Danustouch]

What is the most interesting Historical place that you have visited thus far?

I am not really well travelled, unfortunately, but I'd say that the best historical places that I have visited, have to be Boston (the Freedom Trail), Ghettysburgh PA, and Williamsburgh Virginia. I've also been to Yorktown, but don't remember much about it. Oh..and SALEM!!!!!!!!!

[Theres]

not to mention Fenway Park!

i haven't been to most of the historical places i'd like to go, but i have been fortunate enough to visit a number of very cool sites.
the Palace at Versailles was cool, as was most of Paris. London too. i've been lucky enough to spend entire days at the Louvre' and the British Museum.
i was born near the town of Chester (near Liverpool). it was a Roman settlement originally, and their wall still encircles the city.
at Stratford-upon-Avon (Shakespeare's birthplace) is a beautiful place. and all the castles i've ever visited bring a sort of 'haunting' feeling over me. just to be in a place where so much has occurred over so long a period!
and when i was in my teens i spent a day wandering through the ruins at Casa Grande, Az.
nowadays i drive around photographing lighthouses and learning about the people who spent there lives in these remote places.
yeah, i'm a sucker for history!

[Danustouch]

I watched a Travel Channell program once about the Haunted Lighthouses on the West Coast. I assure you, we have plenty of them here on the East Coast too! A fairly notorious one in CT...and I'm sure more than one here in RI, too. :) If you're ever in New England, touring lighthouses, let me know :)

[Theres]

believe me, visiting the NE lighthouses is a dream i WILL fulfill someday. maybe we can meet for a picnic!

[Danustouch]

My Husbands FAVORITE place in the world, growing up...was Beavertail, which is a park, containing a lighthouse, in Jamestown, Rhode Island (near narragansett). It is absolutely beautiful there! You can walk right down onto the stones, and be hit with a spray of sea foam :) We plan to picnic there ALOT this Summer, so you'd be welcome to Join us :) I'll even snap pictures for ya, in the mean time :)

[Theres]

i'm familiar with that light. it seems like a very pretty place. and yeah, i'd love to see some pics.

[Éric]

Brúgh na Boine.

[Danustouch]

Did you go on the Solstice???

[Éric]

Unfortunately not, though it's on the list. They do this thing now where they "simulate" the process of that passage of time, so you see the light strike down the chamber...but it's nothing, on a spiritual level. Man-made contrivance which defeats the sacral nature of the real thing and reduces the engineering feat to less than meaningful. :(

[Danustouch]

Yep..i've heard about that. I heard also that they draw raffles, and like..ten people are chosen to actually be inside on the solstice..at the crucial point. Something like that. And as for demeans the sacral nature..I can understand that view. But..on the other hand, it might also inspire people who don't understand the sacral nature, to further probe their ideas on it.

[Azure]

Haven't spent nearly enough time in Ireland. But I grew up in Athens and the first thing I saw every morning as a child was the Acropolis. That sort of sticks with you.

I truly love Bath, in England, but I seem to be in a minority there.

[Dancin Girl]

When I lived in Germany, I visited Trier... one of the oldest cities, originally a Roman settlement many of the ancient ruins are part of the city now as it built up around the structures. Also Luxembourg, which has the remains the wall that used to surround it... and while I was there I visited one of the casltes under reconstruction... Viandon. It was mostly in ruins and being slowly and painstakingly restored, The feelings I got there were so haunting and emotional would love to go back some day and see more of the progress. I loved all the castles in Germany and also the areas of England I visited...

[Earthcup]

I was tired, cranky and in heels :eek: but hiking up to see the Welsh stone wall at Fort Mountain State Park was the coolest historical place I've been yet.

I can imagine that Prince Madoc and Co., or whoever built it, was inspired by the view of the sun rising and setting and the misty mountains... I wonder why they built it? A monument of some sort is all that makes sense to me....

Second coolest place I've seen is the USS Yorktown. Much bigger than I expected. Must have been very imposing at sea. Can't see how my uncle lived on it so long though....

Third would have to be the square in Dahlonega, GA, home of the first US goldrush, before the "improvements". You knew you were stepping on the very same bricks the goldminers did and could imagine that gold dust might have settled between the cracks. They cut down the trees and put in new bricks though... :ugh:

I've been other places, forts, ships, old cities but those stand out as places that feel special. I do wish I'd gotten to tour the Alamo when I was in San Antonio though...:(

[Naillosotarrain]

Hmmm...

I would have to say that the most interesting historical place that I have been would be Pearl Harbor. The Necromantic energies (for lack of better definition) there are both overwhelming, and awesome (at least if you're like me and tend to dabble with Necromancy from time to time).