What's a fun or unusual attraction in your city/town/area? If you could take somebody on a tour of where you live, where would you go? I love to travel and right now can't afford a vacation, so take me one (and let me brew some ideas in my head). Pretend your a tourist in your own town.

There's nothing to see here. I'd take the people to oslo 8)

My city is a little known attraction. It's the smallest official city in new york state; 3k people over 2 square miles. Beyond that...nothing.

Good one, RaefWolfe...I'm sure that there are many gorgeous natural spots around where you live. Never been to the east coast at all. Gotta get there one of these days!

As far as Scandinavia goes, I've been to Norway & Sweden (drove through). I've been to Oslo - it was nice but expenisive. I actually liked where my relatives live, Sand, much better.

In Milwaukee, I would take people to the Milwaukee Art Museum if there was a cool exhibit in rotation. Otherwise, the regular collection is not all that impressive. The building is by a famous architect, though...Calatrava and the area is pretty nice. Lots of little boutiques and the like in the 3rd Ward area.

I think a stop at the Palamino for lunch or brunch or dinner would be in order. If they were drinkers, At Random is one of the oldest cocktail lounges in the city. They still serve it up 1950s style. All frozen drinks (like Pink Squirrels and the like) and Tiki Love Bowls for 2. They also only take CASH.

There's also a great place for duck pin bowling. The pin setters are little kids from the neighborhood. No automation there.

i live in south dakota and all we have is mount rushmore. everybody thinks its amazing, but its just a big rock with some dead guys faces on it.
it would be much more pretty if they had just left it. but there is some really pretty scenery up in the hills.(the black hills)
and then we have the sturgis rally in the summer. motorcycles are okay i guess, but theyre really loud.

I suppose. It used to be prettier, but the oneida indians who own the casino ten to fifteen minutes down the road keep tearing up the land to make golf courses and expand the casino and other stupid shit. Still, Sherrill itself is nice, and there's lots of woods and stuff. The duck pond makes for a good place to stop during a walk and rest, or take photos. I prefer going to the ice cream shop during the middle of my walks, though, between you and me ;)

Hmm well Dundee is a crap hole. I can't think of much interesting to see there but if you were to visit Edinburgh I would recommend some of the vaults under the city which are supposedly haunted. You can take a ghost tour - cheesy but entertaining.

I visited Edinburgh last August - inadvertently during the Fringe Festival - it was busy as hell, but SO fun. I didn't do a vault tour. Maybe if I make it back someday! I did see quite a bit of interesting stuff, though. If I get back to Scotland, I'm definitely planning on having more time. LOL

Yummmm I really want to go to Australia one dya, it seems so cool.
That and to Europe.

Where I live there actually isn't much, Theres alot of farms. Or at least there used to be. I can still remember this one farm ith all the cows. I've seen it with cows, without cows, getting the barn burned down by the constructors (the cows were long gone, the farm kinda sold everything), and now theres tons of houses on it and stuff.

The biggest thing here is it Trotters Museum and Track. aka the horse racing track. Oh and the Government Building for my county is in my town too. Other than that its a whole lot of nothing.

RWolfe. Do you live in southern NY? cause I remmeber hearing about something about a year ago with indians and casinos....?

Central new york, yeah.

There was actually a big supreme court case with my city vs the oneida indians. They're making all kinds of land claims and trying to take back land that was lost in treaties like 200 years ago. It's similar to someone in the 60's selling their 55 Chevy for 2 grand, and now wanting it back because they didn't realize its worth at the time.

So pretty much they tried to take my house, my friends houses, land around my school, all because they're greedy capitalists. They also don't pay taxes.

Needless to say, those oneida indians and the residents of sherrill don't get along. Of course, it's not all of them; from what I understand, there's two factions of oneida indians; the ones that own the casino, and the ones who think they're capitalist pigs and get along very well with the rest of society.

While the casino has given people a lot of jobs and brought more traffic to the area, I wish the people who go to the casino would go away. They're rude and break all kinds of laws, from rules of the road to littering to defacing public property.

It's also driven many small businesses away. Oh, and because they don't have to pay taxes, they've got a lot of gas stations opened up with cheaper gas, so they're monopolizing the local gas stations too.

I'm...not their biggest fan, as you can tell. They tried to take my home from me. The home that my family bought, fair and square, with our hard earned money (that had taxes taken out of it!).

Beyond that issue, I really like my city. It's very pretty and peaceful, and the casino and the ilk around it aren't within its confines (it's in a town, about a ten to fifteen minute drive). We've got woods, creeks, a duck pond, lots of parks, a bowling alley...there's also a couple pizza places and a nice little sit down lunch diner place. The people vary from being really pleasant to being somewhat bigoted (small white christian community). It's also a fairly young area. Because of how nice and quiet it is, a lot of young families raise their kids here. There's an elementary school and the middle/high school is a fifteen minute drive, past the casino.

It's nice if youo like to go on walks or like nature, but don't want to have to go to a big old park to see it. We have a bird feeder and we get all kinds of chickadees, nuthatches, blue jays, cardinals, grackles, cowbirds, goldfinches...we also have a hummingbird feeder, and a local hummingbird family has taken to pickering over who gets what and what at it. The duck pond attracts mallards, a muscovy, some brown ducks, canadian geese, a wild domesticated goose, a lame duck or goose whose species I don't know, and a few great blue herons. There's a corn field just down the road where I live where you can see deer a lot in the evenings. Foxes and coyotes show up on occasion, too. Lots of rabbits and the general rodent population.

It's better than where either of my parents lived. Dad lived in Syracuse and mom lives in Rome. I'm not a big-city kind of girl. I like the suburbs!