Swiped from Vigdis

Bold the ones you've been to:

The Alamo
Aleutian Islands
Amana Colonies
the Arch (St. Louis)
Aspen, CO
the Badlands
the Berkshires
the Big Ball of Twine
the Winchester Mystery House
the Black Hills
Broadway
Brooklyn Bridge
Busch Gardens (any location)
Cape Cod
Carhenge
Carlsbad Caverns
Central Park
Chimney Rock
Chinese Theater
Churchill Downs
College World Series
Colonial Williamsburg
Crater Lake
Death Valley
Disneyland (CA)
Disneyworld (FL)
Door County
Empire State Building
the Everglades
Fenway Park
Fisherman’s Wharf
Florida Keys
French Quarter/Bourbon Street
Gettysburg
Golden Gate Bridge
Grand Canyon
Great Salt Lake
the Hamptons
Hoover Dam
Independence Hall
Johnson Space Center
Joshua Tree
Kennedy Space Center/Cape Canaveral
Lake Placid
Lake Tahoe
Las Vegas – the Strip
Mackinac Island
Madison Square Garden
Malibu
Mall of America
Mammoth Cave
Mojave Desert
Monticello
Mt. Rushmore
Mt. St. Helens
Mt. Vernon
Napa Valley
Niagara Falls
the North Shore of Maui
the Ozarks/Branson
Petrified Forest
Pike’s Peak
Redwood Nat’l Park
the Road to Hana
Rocky Mountains
Rodeo Drive/Beverly Hills
Route 66
Sea World (any location)
Sears Tower
Sequoia Nat’l Park
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Smithsonian Institute Museums
Smoky Mountain Nat’l Park
Sonoma Valley
South Padre Island
Space Needle
Statue of Liberty
Stone Mountain (only if it's the fabric store in Berkeley....)
Times Square
United Nations
Universal Studios
Vail, CO
World of Coca-Cola
Wrigley Field
Yankee Stadium
Yellowstone Nat’l Park/Old Faithful
Harper's Ferry
Yosemite Nat’l Park
Zion Nat’l Park
Pike Place Market
Tybee Island
Beale Street
Ben & Jerry's

A few of my own additions:
Assateague/Chincoteague
The Cloisters
Ford's Theater
Hyde Park
Indianapolis Speedway
Mark Twain House
Mesa Verde
Mystic Seaport
Tanglewood
The Wall (Vietnam Memorial)
West Point
Valley Forge
Underground Atlanta

Cool poem I hadn't thought about in years.

Thanks to mamapduck  for a memory jog at lunch today.

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears.
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

--William Ernest Henley
http://www.bartleby.com/103/7.html

Wells' Nonsense Anthology online

For mamapduck 
Some maniac put the contents of Wells' Nonsense Anthology on a single web page. If the scrolling does not make your eyes bleed, there are some remarkably silly little gems within.

http://thunderbird.k12.ar.us/Children's%20Literature/Wells,%20Carolyn/nonsense%20anthology.htm

MOORLANDS OF THE NOT

Across the moorlands of the Not
We chase the gruesome When;
And hunt the Itness of the What
Through forests of the Then.

Into the Inner Consciousness
We track the crafty Where;
We spear the Ego tough, and beard
The Selfhood in his lair.

With lassos of the brain we catch
The Isness of the Was;
And in the copses of the Whence
We hear the think bees buzz.

We climb the slippery Whichbark tree
To watch the Thusness roll
And pause betimes in gnostic rimes
To woo the Over Soul.
--Anonymous