Top 10 Best Places to Visit in Illinois
Top 10 Best Places to Visit in Illinois
Illinois is full of absolutely amazing, incredible spots.There’s plenty of natural and man-made beauty in Illinois that you probably never even knew existed, including hidden waterfalls, flooded forests, and historic structures. This video includes natural wonders as well as architectural marvels. Among our top places are the Anderson Japanese Gardens and the Shawnee National Forest famed for its awesome Garden of the Gods and home to the Rim Rock Recreational Trail. Consistently named one the top natural destination in Illinois, Garden of the Gods has amazed viewers for years. And we mean many years, as some of these rocks are 320 million years old. Here is an overview of the best places to visit in Illinois. These are just some super great places, but they don’t even come close to covering all the amazing places to explore in Illinois.
#1.Anderson Japanese Gardens
#2.Shawnee National Forest
#3.Starved Rock State Park
#4.Chicago
#5.Cahokia Mounds
#6.Galena
#7.Lincoln's New Salem
#8.Champaign-Urbana
#9.Buffalo Rock State Park
#10.Volo Bog
Rock City: I Can See Seven States, then Nashville - Traveling Robert
Great American Road Trip 2016 Part 2
On this week's video we visit a famous roadside attraction near Chattanooga, Tennessee called Rock City. Rock city is located on the Georgia side of the border, on top of the Lookout Mountain Ridge.
Rock City became a tourist attraction back in the early 1930s, at the site of a community called Fairyland, founded by one Garnet Carter and his wife Frieda. These rock formations happened to be inside the Fairyland community, and it was Frieda’s idea to develop this part of the property into a great rock garden, with all kinds of plants, trails around the rocks, and statues of gnomes and other fairytale characters imported from Germany. They claim that you can see seven states from the top of the mountain: Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. While on a clear day you can see the Smoky Mountains, that's still the Tennessee side. I don't have hard evidence of this but I have read that Kentucky, Virginia, and South Carolina are below the horizon, so the only way you could see them is if the Earth was flat.
In Rock City we also enjoy the music of Matt Downer - Old Time Traveler, an Alabama native and Chattanooga resident. He plays the fiddle, the banjo, and the guitar, and he has dedicated his career to the preservation of traditional music. He has studied the repertoire and techniques of many of the elder Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia musicians, so he is the real deal. What a treat it is to listen to his music.
As we continue towards Nashville we run into some trouble climbing the Cumberland Plateau , also known Monteagle Mountain. The car started overheating on the long 5% grade. While technically not a mountain, Monteagle got it's popular culture name due to a Johnny Cash song describing this treacherous portion of the road.
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Highpointing: Sassafras Mountain, the highest point in South Carolina - Rooftops of America
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The highpoint is currently off limits due to the construction of the new observation deck. It will be reopened in 2019.
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We visit Sassafras Mountain, the rooftop of South Carolina. Located in Pickens County, the highest point in the state has an elevation of 3,554 feet. Join us as we go highpointing!
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Music by Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com
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Our FAVORITE day in MEXICO CITY!
We're experiencing CDMX for the 1st time. This travel vlog = our pure happiness in Mexico City!
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Back when we lived in Guadalajara, we LOVED that the city closes down major streets every Sunday for recreational activities. You could walk your dog, take out your skateboard, bring the kids, ride a bike - however you wanted to move around the city, really!
When we heard that CDMX had the same thing (called Muevete en Bici), we jumped at the opportunity to get some fresh air on Paseo de la Reforma, the most notable street in Mexico City. We took an Uber from our hotel in Santa Fe and grabbed two MoBike rentals to join the fun. And what fun it was!
Later in the day, we find ourselves in a super cool library bar and a Japanese restaurant with swings! Both of these were in Colonia Juarez in Zona Rosa, one of the many interesting neighborhoods of Mexico City. Finally, we made our way to the absolutely stunning, Monumento a la Revolucion. We took the elevador to the lookout point and soaked in the spectacular 360 views of the city.
Unfortunately, our time in Mexico City is coming to an end—this time at least—so we'll have to save all the things we didn't get to do for another trip. Do you think we should come back to Mexico City? Let us know in the comments! For now, it's back to our home in Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo.
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Highpointing: Mount Mitchell, the highest point in North Carolina - Rooftops of America
We visit Mount Mitchell, the rooftop of North Carolina. Located in Mount Mitchell State Park near Asheville, the highest point in the state has an elevation of 6,684 feet. It is also the tallest mountain in the United States east of the Mississippi River. Join us as we go highpointing!
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Music by Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com
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Lets Go Places prt 21 - Arizona, from Globe through Tonto National Forest - USA Travel - YouTube
We started this morning in Springerville and now we are about half way to Flagstaff, our stop for the evening.
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Title: Every thought has been thought
Which Cruise Ship and Port Stop Would You Like To Enjoy For Your Bucket List This Year?
Which Cruise Ship and Port Stop Would You Like To Enjoy For Your Bucket List This Year? Ok this is it! Where do you want to go and which ship do you want to sail on? It's your bucket list, tell me our inner secrets... Sydney Australia? Hong Kong Harbor? San Francisco? The world is your oyster! My viewers let me know where they want to go in this video.
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Top Tourist Attractions in Eureka Springs - Arkansas
Top Tourist Attractions and Beautiful Places in Eureka Springs - Arkansas:
Thorncrown Chapel, Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge, Beaver Lake, St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church, Christ of the Ozarks, Lake Leatherwood, Blue Spring Heritage Center, Quigley's Castle, Onyx Cave Park, Eureka Springs Historical Museum
Here’s what it’s like inside St. Louis' Gateway Arch
We took a trip to St. Louis’ Gateway Arch — the tallest man-made monument in the US. The arch is 630 feet high and its foundations are about 60 feet deep. It's made of 142 stainless steel sections, concrete, and structural steel.
The monument honors Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase and St. Louis' role in westward expansion of the US.
It's often called the gateway to the west.
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Whitaker Point Hike- Ozark National Forest- Arkansas