Exemplary Experience Design around the world...

I've always wanted someone to tell me what experiences to make sure I didn't miss when going certain places. That's what this list is trying to do.

Seattle Experience Music project Riding the super-futuristic Monorail! The Sound Garden at Magnuson Park Gasworks Park Portland 24 hour Church of Elvis Kennedy School Bagdad Theater Rimsky's Corsa Cafe San Francisco Audium Exploratorium Tactile Dome Golden Gate Bridge Antenna Theater Teatro Zinzanni Cable cars Defenestration Halloween in the Castro Gay Pride Parade Critical Mass Friday Night Skate The Urban Iditarod Pacific Bell Park Glide Memorial Church on Sunday Alcatraz Beach Blanket Babylon Chinese New Years Parade Day of the Dead Church of John Coltrane Golden Gate Park Black Rock Desert, Nevada Burning Man Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance Weisenthal Center Holocaust Museum Petersen Car Museum Disneyland Disney's California Adventure Frank Lloyd Wright's Storer Residence Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis Residence Getty Museum Las Vegas "O" Mystere De la Guarda Stratosphere Star Trek Experience Bellagio Fountains Hoover Dam Blue Man Group Fremont Street Mandalay Bay Wave Pool Sky Screamer (at the MGM Grand) The Sahara Hotel's Speed Rollercoast Chicago Arun's St. Patrick's Day Parade Bud Billiken Day Parade Maxwell Street Market Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Science and Industry Shedd Aquarium Charlie Trotter DisneyQuest Venetian Night Parade of Lights Taste of Chicago Food Festival Garfield Park Conservatory Lincoln Park Zoo Volo Classic Car Museum (Volo, IL) Blue Man Group Chicago Underground Film Festival Chicago Architecture Foundation River Tour Austin Central Market Asylum St. Spankers Watching the bats fly out from under the Congress St. Bridge at dusk (late spring-summer) Pittsburgh Andy Warhol Museum Carnegie Museum Duquesne Incline (one of the few remaining inclines in the world) Three Rivers Arts Festival Three Rivers Regatta The sandwiches at Primanti Bros. Blues Cafe New Orleans The Ponchartrain Emeril's Delmonico Bourbon Street The Garden District K-Paul's Lucky Cheng's Mardi Gras Cafe du Monde The Cemetaries Minneapolis/St. Paul Mall of America Nye's Polonaise Room Walker Art Center First Avenue Memphis Beale St. during the Blues Festival Graceland Boston The Freedom Trail Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum Children's Museum Computer Museum Boston Museum of Science Electricity and Lightning Theatre Summer Public Movies on the Commons New York City The Lion King De la Guarda Hayden Planetarium Blue Man Group Guggenheim Museum The Hudson Hotel Phillipe Starck's bathrooms at the Paramount and Royalton Chocolate Martinis at the Red Bench Times Square Central Park Washington, DC Newseum Vietnam Veterans Memorial Air and Space Museum Holocaust Memorial Museum Atlanta CNN Peachtree Center and Mariott Marquis (both designed by John Portman) High Museum of Art Martin Luther King Center Carter Center Underground Atlanta Coca Cola Museum A drive down Lullwater Drive or through Buckhead Orlando Epcot Center DisneyQuest Animal Kingdom Sea World Typhoon Lagoon Discovery Cove Celebration, Florida Up and Down the East Coast Krispy Kreme New Mexico Lightning Field

London The Museum of... The Design Museum The London Eye The Jubilee line and stations The British Museum Document Room The London Transport Museum Millenium Bridge The Tate Museum Harrod's The Chunnel and Eurostar Paris Institut du Monde Arabe The Eiffel Tower St. Chappelle The Technology Museum at la Villette The Pompidou The Marais The Picasso Museum Musee D'Orsay Fauchon Le Louvre L'Orangerie Versailles Monet's House at Giverney Le Metro The Catacombs Le Musee de la Paix in Normandy Florence (and Tuscany) The Uffizi and its collection of art San Gimignano Plaza Vecchio Boboli Gardens Siena Barcelona La Pedrera La Sagrada Familia Summer Movies and Free Swim at the Olympic Stadium Pool Hospital San Pau Absinthe at Bar Marsella A performance by La Fura Dels Baus Restaurante Cor de Foc Miro Museum Madrid Picasso's Guernica at Museo Reina Sophia Bilbao Guggenheim Museum Marbella Museo del Grabado Español Contemporaneo Oslo a walk in the forest around Froggnersetteren Iceland Landmannalaugar Blau Lonith (the Blue Lagoon) waterfalls Grmisey (and the Artic Circle) Amsterdam A walk in the dunes near Bloemendaal in January The original Supper Club Queensday--especially on the water Ijs-vrij (iterally ice-free, sounds like ice-fry and means of course ice holiday.) Anne Frank House The red light district in the evening Taking a boat tour of the city Boom Chicago Sydney Orson & Blake Walking the Harbour Bridge A concert at the Opera House Kakadu, Australia Tokyo Asakusa Shinjuku Meiji Shrine Tsujiki, the world's largest fish market Tokyo Subway (esp. during rush hour)

This is, obviously, a growing list and it is reflective of my personal experiences. If you have another item for the list, let me know:

 

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