Bucket List
This is my bucket list.
It serves as a list of things aimed at adding intentional experiences to my life.
Welcome to my bucket list. I wrote the very first version of this list when I was 14 years old (back in 2007!) Back then it only had just over a hundred things on it. The crazy thing about life is that the longer you live, the more things you want to experience, see, try and learn. So as I’ve grown, so too has this list.
My Personal Rules
I have established four rules to ensure that my bucket list works best for me.
1. I can add a new item at any time. If I hear of a cool place or if someone tells me about an awesome adventure, it goes on the list. Zero hesitation.
2. I can add an item to the list and immediately cross it off. Often the best experiences in life happen unexpectedly without advanced planning. If something unanticipated happens, it can immediately go on the list and immediately be crossed off.
3. I can remove an item at any time. Life changes. Priorities change. If I see something on this list that no longer interests me in any way, it immediately goes away.
4. This list does not define me or my progress through life. Simple as that.
❤️ My Top 10
These are the ten things fundamental to the story I want to live with my life.
#1 – Fall in love with another person with every ounce of my being
#2 – Continually be her best friend and partner
#3 – Find and create daily adventures to share with her
#4 – Build a family rooted in love and honesty
#5 – Create a home that represents acceptance and safety
#6 – Pursue work that challenges my brain and moves the world forward
#7 – Be a life-long learner who seeks knowledge and wisdom above worldly drivel
#8 – Seek the open road/river/ocean/sky/path and take the time to appreciate it all
#9 – Remain strong in the morals, values, and ideals that represent me
#10 – Acknowledge my faults, recognize my mistakes, and actively seek growth
🧗 Adventures
Life is an adventure, but this list is composed of some real adventures I want to have.
- Go horseback riding on a beach
- Spend a night in a haunted place ✔️
- Claim an undiscovered island
- Go on a road trip ✔️
- See a double rainbow
- Go rock climbing ✔️
- Abseil down the Gaping-Gill
- Canoe the Boundary Waters Travel down the Mississippi River
- Walk across the Mississippi River ✔️
- Walk across the Capilano Suspension Bridge
- Hike Tour de Mont Blanc
- Hike the Torres del Plaine Circut
- Hike the Kalalau trail
- Hike the Tiger Leaping Gorge
- Hike the Inca Trail
- Hike the Annapurna Circut
- Hike the Tongariro Northern Circut
- Go kloofing
- Complete a 5/5 star geocache
- Visit the Titanic in a submarine
- Take a canopy tour
- Witness a meteor shower in the desert
- Hike the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim
- Visit a shipwreck ✔️
- Explore a real castle
- Walk-behind a waterfall ✔️
- Ride a gondola in Venice while wearing a mask
- Kiss on a gondola at sunset under the Bridge of Sighs
- Hike on the Appalachian Trail
- Circumnavigate the globe
🎨 Art
The many wonderful pieces of art that span millennia that I have the desire to see.
- A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie (Bierstadt)
- A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (Seurat) ✔️
- American Gothic (Wood) ✔️
- Big Self-Portrait (Close)
- Birth of Venus (Botticelli)
- Boy on High Dive (Rockwell)
- Campbell’s Soup Cans (Warhol) ✔️
- Castle Scharfenberg at Night (Oehme)
- Christina’s World (Wyeth)
- Composition 8 (Kandinsky)
- Convex and Concave (Escher)
- David (Michelangelo)
- Dogs Playing Poker (Coolidge)
- Dull Gret (Bruegel)
- Four Seasons in One Head (Arcimboldo)
- Ginevra de’ Benci (da Vinci)
- Girl with a Pearl Earring (Vermeer)
- Guernica (Picasso)
- I and the Village (Chagall) ✔️
- Impression, Sunrise (Monet)
- Lady With an Ermine (da Vinci)
- Laocoön and His Sons (Various)
- Las Meninas (Velázquez)
- Massacre of the Innocents (Rubens)
- Mona Lisa (da Vinci)
- Napoleon Crossing the Alps (David)
- Night Watch (Rembrandt)
- Nighthawks (Hopper) ✔️
- Persistence of Memory (Dali)
- Pieta (Michelangelo)
- Portrait of Henry VIII (Holbein)
- Primavera (Botticelli)
- Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond (Monet) ✔️
- Saturn Devouring His Son (Goya)
- School of Athens (Raphael)
- Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat (van Gogh)
- Sistine Chapel ceiling (Michelangelo)
- The Battle of Alexander at Issus (Altdorfer)
- The Garden of Earthly Delights (Bosch)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Hokusai)
- The Last Supper (da Vinci)
- The Old Guitarist (Picasso) ✔️
- The Scream (Munch)
- The Sleeping Gypsy (Rousseau) ✔️
- The Son of Man (Magritte)
- The Stages of Life (Friedrich)
- The Starry Night (van Gogh) ✔️
- The Thinker (Rodin)
- The Winged Victory of Samothrace (Unknown)
- The Wounded Angel (Simberg)
- Two Men Contemplating the Moon (Friedrich)
- Venus de Milo (Antioch)
- Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (Friedrich)
- Washington Crossing the Delaware (Leutze)
- Whistler’s Mother (Whistler)
🏃 Athleticism
The various ways I want to physically push myself.
- Run a 5k
- Run a 10K
- Run a half marathon
- Run a marathon
- Complete 40 consecutive pull-ups
- Complete 100 consecutive push-ups
- Run a mile in under 6 minutes
- Go on a multi-day bike ride
- Bike 100 miles in a single day
- Participate in a triathlon
- Climb to the top of a rope in a gym
- Complete an adventure run
- Go a week drinking only water
- Complete a Tough Mudder
- Complete a Warrior Dash
- Complete a Spartan Race
- Complete a GORUCK Challenge
- Do a muscle-up
🏙️ Cities
No two cities are the same. Each one showcasing its own living, breathing energy.
- Beijing
- Boston ✔️
- Cairo
- Charleston ✔️
- Dubai
- Hong Kong
- Las Vegas ✔️
- London
- Los Angeles
- New York City ✔️
- Paris
- Portland ✔️
- Rio De Janerio
- Rome
- San Fransisco ✔️
- Savannah ✔️
- Seattle ✔️
- Tokyo
- Vatican City
- Venice
- Washington D.C. ✔️
🔖 Content
The books and films that I want to consume.
- Watch the AFI 100 Greatest Movies of All-Time
- Watch all the movies that won the Oscar for best movie
- See everything by Stanley Kubrick
- See everything by Charlie Chaplin
- See everything by Alfred Hitchcock
- See everything by Orson Welles
- See everything by Wes Anderson
- See everything by the Coen Brothers
- See everything by Martin Scorsese
- See everything by Steven Spielberg
- See everything by David Fincher
- See everything by Christopher Nolan
- Read 3+ plays by Shakespeare
- Read everything by Malcolm Gladwell
- Read 3+ books by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Read everything by Stephen King
- Read 3+ books by John Steinbeck
- Read 3+ books by Ernest Hemingway
- Read 52 books in a single year
🌎 Countries
I would love to visit as many countries as my time on earth allows.
- United States (born here!) ✔️
- Canada ✔️
🍸 Drink
The IBA Official Cocktails (I want to try them all)
- Alexander
- Americano
- Angel Face
- Aviation
- Barracuda
- Bee’s Knees
- Bellini
- Between the Sheets
- Black Russian
- Bloody Mary
- Boulevardier
- Bramble
- Brandy Crusta
- Caipirinha
- Canchanchara
- Casino
- Champagne cocktail
- Clover Club
- Corpse Reviver #2
- Cosmopolitan
- Cuba libre
- Daiquiri
- Dark ‘n’ Stormy
- Dry martini
- Espresso martini
- Fernandito
- French 75
- French Connection
- French martini
- Gin fizz
- Golden dream
- Grasshopper
- Hanky Panky
- Hemingway Special
- Horse’s Neck
- Illegal
- Irish coffee
- John Collins
- Kir
- Last Word
- Lemon drop martini
- Long Island iced tea
- Mai Tai
- Manhattan
- Margarita
- Martinez
- Mary Pickford
- Mimosa
- Mint julep
- Mojito
- Monkey Gland
- Moscow mule
- Naked and Famous
- Negroni
- New York Sour
- Old Cuban
- Old fashioned
- Paloma
- Paper Plane
- Paradise
- Penicillin
- Piña Colada
- Pisco Sour
- Planter’s Punch
- Porto flip
- Ramos fizz
- Russian Spring Punch
- Rusty Nail
- Sazerac
- Sea Breeze
- Sex on the Beach
- Sidecar
- Singapore Sling
- Southside
- Spicy Fifty
- Spritz
- Stinger
- Suffering Bastard
- Tequila Sunrise
- Tipperary
- Tommy’s margarita
- Trinidad Sour
- Tuxedo
- Ve.n.to
- Vesper
- Vieux Carré
- Whiskey sour
- White Lady
- Yellow Bird
- Zombie
🎵 Events
Even an introvert such as myself wants to experience all these events at least once.
- Attend the Olympics
- Attend an MLB game (
1,50,100, 500) ✔️ - Attend an NBA game ✔️
- Attend an NFL game ✔️
- Attend an NHL game
- Attend a professional soccer game ✔️
- See U2 in concert
- See Coldplay in concert
- See Imagine Dragons in concert ✔️
- See Carrie Underwood in concert
- See Lorde in concert ✔️
- Attend a Native American Pow Wow
- Take part in a sky lantern festival
- Attend a film premiere
- Attend the midnight release of a movie ✔️
- Attend a gallery opening
- Get VIP passes to a show
- See a TED talk live
- Give a TED talk
- See a Broadway performance
- See the Lion King on Broadway
- See Les Miserables on Broadway
- See a Cirque de Soleil show ✔️
- See a Ringling Bros. circus show ✔️
- Attend the Overammergau Passion Play
- See an opera in Sydney
- Hear Vivaldi’s Four Seasons live
- Hear Beethovens 5th and 9th Symphonies live
- See a play at the Globe Theatre
- Attend a beach bonfire ✔️
- Attend Wimbledon
- Mardi Gras in NOLA
- Carnival (Brazil)
- Blue Man Group ✔️
- SXSW
- Burning Man
- Running of the Bulls
- Boston Marathon ✔️
- Tomatina
- Grand Ole Opry in Nashville
- Attend the Monaco Grand Prix
- Listen to one of the world’s great orchestras perform
🍔 Food
There is so much good food and drink across the planet. There’s a lot of it I want to try.
- Drink fresh milk from a coconut ✔️
- Taste 200 different fruits
- Eat at the Heart Attack Grill
- Eat in an old-timey rail car diner ✔️
- Hot dog at Coney Island
- Ahi poke
- Ants
- Crickets ✔️
- Beef tongue
- Bird nest soup
- Bone marrow ✔️
- Cactus ✔️
- Century egg
- Cheeks
- Chicken feet
- Dim sum
- Elk ✔️
- Foie gras ✔️
- Frickles
- Green Tuna Fruit
- Haggis
- Head cheese
- Heart
- Lamb tongue
- Lamb brains
- Lambs rump
- Mochi
- Pigeon
- Pigs feet ✔️
- Rabbit
- Reindeer
- Scrapple
- Snake
- Wild Boar
- Yak
- Tripe
- Create my own cocktail
- Drink at a distillery ✔️
- Eat a meal cooked by a famous chef ✔️
- Eat a molecular gastronomy dinner
- Eat alone at a restaurant ✔️
- Extract honey from a beehive
- Hunt for wild mushrooms
- Dine on the Champs-Elysees
- Have a wine collection
- Go to T.G.I. Friday’s on a Friday
- Eat at a 5-star restaurant
- Deep-fried Oreo
- Philly Cheesecake in Philly ✔️
- Try 50 different kinds of beer ✔️
- Sanyou Cave Hanging Cliff Restaurant
- Make a pizza from scratch
- Not eat out for an entire week
- Have a candlelit dinner
- Eat gelato in Italy
- Eat crepes in France
- Eat at Dans le Noir
- Eat dragon’s beard candy
- Eat Bitterballen in Amsterdam
- Eat a smoothie in a fruit bowl at Loco Coco (NYC)
- Drink glitter beer
- Eat a soft pretzel from an NYC cart
- Wine tasting in California
- Visit the Champagne region in France
🏨 Historic Hotels
I love the history and majesty of unique hotels. Historic Hotels Worldwide is an organization that recognizes and celebrates these special places. According to their website, there are a total of 506 hotels across 42 different countries with this distinction.
- John Rutledge House Inn (stayed 2018, 2019, 2020)
- Hotel Colorado (stayed 2020)
- The Westin Poinsett (stayed 2020)
- The Brown Hotel (stayed 2021)
- The Bellevue Hotel (stayed 2021)
📋 Miscellaneous
These are all the things that did not fit in another category.
- Meet Taylor Swift
- Have my name appear on Wikipedia
- See Halley’s Comet
- Witness a Total Solar Eclipse ✔️
- Meet my doppleganger
- Contact/meet someone with my same name
- Pay the bridge toll for the person behind me
- Put change into someone’s expired meter
- Drive a zamboni
- Send a care package to a soldier
- Have a star named after me ✔️
- Write something in wet cement
- Find a 4 leaf clover
- Bowl a turkey
- Buy a cup of coffee for a cold Salvation Army Bell Ringer
- Read the Bible cover-to-cover
- Be on a jumbotron at a stadium ✔️
- Build a sand sculpture ✔️
- Coin a word
- Send a message in a bottle ✔️
- Find a pearl in an oyster
- Finish a crossword puzzle without cheating
- Meet someone famous ✔️
- Create a family logo
- Be in a commercial
- Take an improv class
- Do 24 hours of silence
- Teach a class
- Make a hole in one
- Own an original piece of artwork ✔️
- Be a mentor
- Help someone with a check on their bucket list ✔️
- Be a member of an exclusive club
- Slide down a firehouse pole
- Entertain the elderly at a nursing home
- Shake hands with a U.S. President
- Be a contestant on a television game show
- Sponsor a child
- Donate blood ✔️
- Participate in jury duty
- Cut a ribbon at a major opening
- Watch a live rocket launch
- Have a life-changing conversation with a complete stranger ✔️
- Belong to a secret society
- Call someone, tell them to look out their window, and be standing outside ✔️
- Change clothes in a phone booth
- Create a world map with pins of where I’ve been
- Do something absolutely spontaneous
- Go in a hot tub outside during winter ✔️
- Kick in a door
- Lay in a street in the middle of the night
- Leave a $100 tip ✔️
- Own a large book collection
- Receive a standing ovation
- Ride a mattress down a staircase ✔️
- Send a letter to a random address
- Stay in a lighthouse
- Relax in a natural hot spring
- Make a blanket fort with a loved one ✔️
- Take underwater photos
- Pan for gold in a river ✔️
- Bury something to rediscover in the future with a loved one
- Do something nice for someone who will never find out
- Appear in a news broadcast on TV
- Keep a plant alive for a year
- Complete a piece of art I’m proud of
- Collect a penny for every year I’ve lived
- Black Friday shopping ✔️
- Go to a Renaissance Festival ✔️
- Kiss on top of a Ferris wheel
- Play Quidditch
- Spend the night in a covered wagon
- Watch fireworks from a boat ✔️
- Be an extra in a Hollywood film
- Ice skate in NYC during the holidays ✔️
⛰️ Mountains
All the mountains that I want to climb around the world.
The 50 State High Points (by elevation)
- Denali (Alaska)
- Mount Whitney (California)
- Mount Elbert (Colorado) ✔️
- Mount Rainier (Washington)
- Gannett Peak (Wyoming)
- Mauna Kea (Hawaii)
- Kings Peak (Utah) ✔️
- Wheeler Peak (New Mexico) ✔️
- Boundary Peak (Nevada)
- Granite Peak (Montana)
- Borah Peak (Idaho)
- Humphrey’s Peak (Arizona) ✔️
- Mount Hood (Oregon)
- Guadalupe Peak (Texas)
- Black Elk Peak (South Dakota) ✔️
- Mount Mitchell (North Carolina) ✔️
- Clingman’s Dome (Tennessee) ✔️
- Mount Washington (New Hampshire) ✔️
- Mount Rogers (Virginia) ✔️
- Panorama Point (Nebraska) ✔️
- Mount Marcy (New York) ✔️
- Katahdin (Maine) ✔️
- Black Mesa (Oklahoma) ✔️
- Spruce Knob (West Virginia) ✔️
- Brasstown Bald (Georgia) ✔️
- Mount Mansfield (Vermont) ✔️
- Black Mountain (Kentucky) ✔️
- Mount Sunflower (Kansas) ✔️
- Sassafras Mountain (South Carolina) ✔️
- White Butte (North Dakota) ✔️
- Mount Greylock (Massachusetts) ✔️
- Backbone Mountain (Maryland) ✔️
- Mount Davis (Pennsylvania) ✔️
- Magazine Mountain (Arkansas) ✔️
- Cheaha Mountain (Alabama) ✔️
- Mount Frissell-South Slope (Connecticut) ✔️
- Eagle Mountain (Minnesota) ✔️
- Mount Arvon (Michigan) ✔️
- Timms Hill (Wisconsin) ✔️
- High Point (New Jersey) ✔️
- Taum Sauk Mountain (Missouri) ✔️
- Hawkeye Point (Iowa) ✔️
- Campbell Hill (Ohio) ✔️
- Hoosier Hill (Indiana) ✔️
- Charles Mound (Illinois) ✔️
- Jerimoth Hill (Rhode Island) ✔️
- Woodall Mountain (Mississippi) ✔️
- Driskill Mountain (Louisiana) ✔️
- Ebright Azimuth (Delaware) ✔️
- Britton Hill (Florida) ✔️
Other United States Peaks
- Pikes Peak (Colorado)
- Long’s Peak (Colorado)
- Mount Massive (Colorado)
- Lassen Peak (California)
- Half Dome (California)
- Mount Adams (New Hampshire)
- Mount Jefferson (New Hampshire)
Other Peaks Around the World
- Kilimanjaro (Tanzania)
- Mount Fuji (Japan)
- Chimborazo (Ecuador)
🏛️ Museums
I love museums. I’ve never been to one I did not like.
- Natural History Museum in London
- The Louvre
- Visit MOMA
- The British Museum
- The National Gallery in London
- The Egyptian Museum in Cairo
- The Art Institute of Chicago
- The National Air and Space Museum
- The Holocaust Memorial Museum
- The Newseum
- Visit the Baseball Hall of Fame
- The NASA Museum/control center in Houston
🏞️ National Parks
I would love to visit all of the 63 National Parks in the United States.
- Acadia ✔️
- American Samoa
- Arches ✔️
- Badlands ✔️
- Big Bend
- Biscayne
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison ✔️
- Bryce Canyon ✔️
- Canyonlands ✔️
- Capitol Reef
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Channel Islands
- Congaree ✔️
- Crater Lake ✔️
- Cuyahoga Valley ✔️
- Death Valley
- Denali
- Dry Tortugas
- Everglades
- Gates of the Artic
- Gateway Arch ✔️
- Glacier ✔️
- Glacier Bay
- Grand Canyon ✔️
- Grand Teton ✔️
- Great Basin
- Great Sand Dunes ✔️
- Great Smoky Mountains ✔️
- Guadalupe Mountains
- Haleakala
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Hot Springs
- Indiana Dunes
- Isle Royale
- Joshua Tree
- Katmai
- Kenai Fjords
- Kings Canyon
- Kobuk Valley
- Lake Clark
- Lassen Volcanic
- Mammoth Cave ✔️
- Mesa Verde ✔️
- Mount Rainier ✔️
- New River Gorge
- North Cascades
- Olympic ✔️
- Petrified Forest ✔️
- Pinnacles
- Redwood ✔️
- Rocky Mountain ✔️
- Saguaro
- Sequoia
- Shenandoah
- Theodore Roosevelt ✔️
- Virgin Islands
- Voyageurs ✔️
- White Sands
- Wind Cave ✔️
- Wrangell-St. Elias
- Yellowstone ✔️
- Yosemite ✔️
- Zion ✔️
🌲 Nature
The natural world is the best world. This list includes some spectacular places.
- Blue Lagoon – Iceland
- Ik Kil – Mexico
- The Hell Hole – Karakum Desert
- Beachy Head Chalk Cliff
- Horseshoe Bend ✔️
- Any black sand beach
- The Galapagos Islands
- Niagara Falls ✔️
- The Dead Sea
- Angel Oak in South Carolina ✔️
- Visit a pink sand beach
- See Holland in bloom
- The Four Corners ✔️
- Monument Valley ✔️
- The Blue Grotto
- The Great Blue Hole
- Old Faithful erupting ✔️
- Waterfalls of Plitvice
- Devil’s Pool
- Bioluminescent Bay
- Glow worm cave
- Kjeragbolten Rock
- Salar de Uyuni during the rainy season
- The Tree Tunnel at Ballynoe
- Uluru (Ayers Rock)
- The Great Barrier Reef
- The Wild Atlantic Way
- Firefly squid of Japan
- Hamilton Pool Nature Preserve
- Kayak with whales
- Free dive with giant sea turtles
- Hug a sloth
- Feed a Koala Bear
- Hold a tarantula ✔️
- Feed a giraffe
- See the salmon run
- Wrap a snake around my neck
- Hunt for bigfoot
- Hug a Redwood ✔️
- Maroon Bells
- See the aspen trees turn yellow
- Go whale watching ✔️
- Locate a Moon Tree
💼 Professional
Things that have to do with career or financial success.
- Write and publish a book
- Write my memoir
- Become proficient in HTML/CSS ✔️
- Design a website ✔️
- Start a blog ✔️
- Get 1,000 subscribers
- Make $100,000 online
- Become a millionaire
- Help my parents retire early
- Google search my name and have 1 page of stuff
🧩 Skills
I never want to stop learning. Here are some of the things I want to learn to do (or at least try once).
- Solve a Rubik’s cube ✔️
- Learn to jump on a pogo stick
- Take up gourmet cooking
- Learn how to do a wall flip
- Learn Morse Code
- Learn Sign Language ✔️
- Fold origami
- Stick shift
- Ukulele
- Bagpipes
- Learn to pick a lock ✔️
- Scuba diving
- Curling
- Walking on stilts
- Chopsticks
- Memorize a poem
- Start a fire without matches
- Building a house of cards ✔️
- Building a domino run
- Learn to say “hello” in 10 languages
- Learn to say “thank you” in 10 languages
- Learn to Ballroom dance
- Learn to Waltz
- Learn to Tango
- Learn to Salsa
- Learn Esperanto
- Archery
- Rip a telephone book in half
- Daily meditation
- Learn some parkour moves
- Walk 50 feet on a slackline
- Try fire walking
- Try fly fishing
- Try ice fishing
🛣️ States
I would love to visit all of the 50 United States. My home country.
- Alabama ✔️
- Alaska
- Arizona ✔️
- Arkansas ✔️
- California ✔️
- Colorado ✔️
- Connecticut ✔️
- Delaware ✔️
- Florida ✔️
- Georgia ✔️
- Hawaii
- Idaho ✔️
- Illinois ✔️
- Indiana ✔️
- Iowa ✔️
- Kansas ✔️
- Kentucky ✔️
- Louisiana ✔️
- Maine ✔️
- Maryland ✔️
- Massachusetts ✔️
- Michigan ✔️
- Minnesota ✔️
- Mississippi ✔️
- Missouri ✔️
- Montana ✔️
- Nebraska ✔️
- Nevada ✔️
- New Hampshire ✔️
- New Jersey ✔️
- New Mexico ✔️
- New York ✔️
- North Carolina ✔️
- North Dakota ✔️
- Ohio ✔️
- Oklahoma ✔️
- Oregon ✔️
- Pennsylvania ✔️
- Rhode Island ✔️
- South Carolina ✔️
- South Dakota ✔️
- Tennessee ✔️
- Texas ✔️
- Utah ✔️
- Vermont ✔️
- Virginia ✔️
- Washington ✔️
- West Virginia ✔️
- Wisconsin ✔️
- Wyoming ✔️
🏰 Structures
All the monuments, museums, and buildings that I fancy to see.
- Machu Picchu – Peru
- Japanese Tunnel of Lights
- Platform 9 3/4 – London
- Hobbit Huts – New Zealand
- Arc du Triomphe – France
- Glory Hole at Monticello Dam
- Irish Sky Garden
- Anne Frank’s house
- Dome on the Rock – Jerusalem
- Montana Magica Lodge
- Auschwitz – Poland
- Stonehenge – England
- Eiffel Tower – France
- Taj Mahal – India
- Easter Island
- Great Wall of China
- Ground Zero – New York City ✔️
- Dealey Plaza
- Petra
- Easter Island
- Cape Canaveral ✔️
- Churchill Downs ✔️
- Fort Knox ✔️
- Abbey Road Crosswalk
- See the world’s tallest structures
- Jay Walker’s library
- Club 33 at Disney Land
- Powell’s Bookstore ✔️
- Jones Street (Savannah, GA) ✔️
- Stay in an overwater bungalow
- Visit a real blues bar in Chicago
- Quebec Ice Hotel
- Catacombs of Paris
- Terracotta Warriors
- Blarney Castle
- Coiling Dragon Cliff Skywalk
- The CN Tower Edge Walk
- Marina Bay Sands (Singapore)
- Ride 100 different roller coasters (44/100)
- Ride the world’s largest Ferris wheels
- Stay in a tee-pee motel
- Swim in the world’s largest pool
- Traverse the longest/tallest bridges of the world
- Independence Hall ✔️
- The Liberty Bell ✔️
🚢 Transportation
Planes, trains and automobiles. And lots of other modes of transportation on this list.
- Drive on the Autobahn
- Drive the entirety of Route 66
- Sleep in an overnight train
- Dive in a submarine
- Ride a jet ski ✔️
- Fly in a glider
- Fly in a hot air balloon
- Fly in a blimp
- Ride a dune buggy in the desert
- Go para-skiing
- Try barefoot water-skiing
- Try stand-up paddleboarding ✔️
- Go kitesurfing
- Navigate a personal underwater sub
- Airboat across an alligator-infested swamp
- Drive through a dust storm
- Ride in a tuk tuk
- Jump in a taxi and yell “Follow that car!” in NYC
- Go jetleving
- Ride in a double-decker bus in London
- Go dog sledding
- Go volcano boarding
- Go white-water rafting
- Go sailing on the ocean in a wooden ship
- Be pulled on a reindeer sleigh ✔️
- Drive the 101 in a convertible
- Road trip from NYC to LA
- Take a random flight at the airport
- Ride in a Zorb Ball
🗿 UNESCO Sites
UNESCO World Heritage Sites are landmarks or areas that have been protected due to their cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance.
As of June 2020, UNESCO has recognized 1,121 such sites across 167 countries. As far as I know, no one has visited all of them, but as I travel I would love to check out as many as possible.
UNESCO Sites I’ve had the honor of visiting
- Mesa Verde National Park ✔️
- Yellowstone National Park ✔️
- Grand Canyon National Park ✔️
- Redwood National and State Parks ✔️
- Mammoth Cave National Park ✔️
- Olympic National Park ✔️
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park ✔️
- Statue of Liberty ✔️
- Yosemite National Park ✔️