The new January Smithsonian Magazine has 28 places to see before you die! I have seen 4.
They are:
1. Mesa Verde (been there)
2. Pompeii
3. Tikal (done that)
4. Petra
5. Pyramids of Giza (had a great time there, my mom was also there but at a different time)
6. Taj Mahal
7. Easter Island
8. The Great Wall of China
9. Aurora Borealis – Alaska or Canada or above 60 degrees latitude (did not see these on my Alaska vacation, bummer)
10. Serengeti in Tanzania and Kenya
11. Iguazu Falls in Brazil
12. Machu Picchu, Peru (me and my sister went here)
13. The Louvre in Paris
14. Zen Garden of Kyoto
15. Uffizi Gallery in Italy
16. Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, Frank Lloyd Wright’s house (seen enough of his houses that I think I can skip this one)
17. Yangtze River, China and one that Pearl Buck called ‘the wildest, wickedest river!
18. Antarctica
19. Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
20. Grand Canyon (my sister would not let us stop to see this great natural treasure)
21. Pagan, Myanmar – it will always be Burma to me
22. Parthenon
23. Angkor Wat, Cambodia
24. Ephesus, Turkey
25. Venice
26. Amazon River Forest
27. Great Barrier Reef
28. Galapagos Islands