A Lot of Places Did Not Make the List...

The list of places that did not make our list is long and distinguished:

Ephesus (very disappointing), Galapagos Islands, Versailles, Stonehenge, the island of Zanzibar, the Vatican and St. Peter's Cathedral, Bath, the whirling dervishes of Konya, the Forbidden City, Haya Sophia, Topkapi Palace, Blue Mosque, stepped pyramids of Saqqara, Cristo Redemptor (so overrated!) and Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio, the Eiffel Tower, Salisbury Cathedral and much of England, Timbuktu (ripoff and very unethical guides), St. Petersburg, most Caribbean islands, much of Spain including the Pyrenees, Al Hambra and Costa Del Sol, the Panama Canal, Costa Rican cloud forests and Arenal Volcano, the Grand Palace in Bangkok, Pamukale (destroyed by locals), Jaipur, Pushkar, much of Italy including the Coliseum, the Pantheon and catacombs of Rome - though Tuscany is nice, La Paz, the Gobi Desert and Inner Mongolia, Buenos Aires, the wine growing area of the Maipo Valley, Brazilian beaches including Ipanema, Copacabana and Le Blon, Ireland, most of the US, Copenhagen, sandboarding in Morocco, the Statue of Liberty, Tokyo, much of the Netherlands, Niamey, Bamako, Istanbul, Izmir, much of China, Otovalo, historic Cuzco, the Sacsahuaman Incan Walls, and about 200 more...