Yellowstone. Picture postcard view everywhere you turn. Want to go back in the winter. Zion is up there too in terms of beauty and amazing hikes. Yosemite was disappointing to me.
I want to go to Cricova Cellars RIGHT NOW!!
I don’t know that I would bother with Aruba on my bucket list. A pretty, beachy place like so many others. Definitely the Amalfi Coast is worth putting on your bucket list.
If you like to sail, Aruba as strong winds from pretty much the same direction every day.
Favorites (not in order): west coast of Ireland; South Island, New Zealand; Kangaroo Island, AUS; central Switzerland; Uclulet, BC (near Tofino); Icefields Parkway; Victoria, BC; Yellowstone; coastal Maine; Patricks Point State Park, CA; Isle of Skye, Oregon Coast
Favorite Cities: London, Krakow, Belfast, Prague, Edinburgh, Victoria, Quebec City
Bucket List: Baltics, Norway, Amalfi Coast, Glacier Nat’l Park, Alaska, England, Wales, Iceland
I’m a cold beaches/mountains/smaller cities kind of gal.
@CountingDown Sounds like we could be travel buddies. 
I am sitting on my deck right now looking across the glass flat Salish Sea at the Olympic Mountains to the South and over the neighborhood marina at Mt.Baker to the North. There are two sailboats in the bay and earlier there was a pod of transient killer whales. I have lived here for 30 years but being from the midwest this view never gets old. Never. First thing I look at in the morning and last thing I look at every night while I say a little prayer of thanks. Definitely one of my favorites.
Others: everything on the road to Hana, Napali Coast, Ozark Mountains in the fall, Yellowstone, drive to Big Sur, Oregon Coast beaches
I have not traveled in Europe but my daughter has quite a bit…she loves Croatia best. On her first trip there, she borrowed a stranger’s phone and called me to tell me she had just landed in the most beautiful place on Earth. She was so overwhelmed she was choked up and speechless. She is getting ready to go to Madrid for a year and all she cares about are how many times she can afford to get back to Dalmatia. Glad to see Madrid in a couple of lists here.
Bucket List: Coast of Maine, Croatia, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Switzerland
I want to play! But I am not nearly as well-traveled as the lot of you!
Beautiful: I LOVE the mountains. It’s my happy place. The US Rockies. We just got back from Yellowstone! It was my first visit! I always have so many questions about wild life, geology, history.
Fascinating culturally & a favorite major foreign city: Mexico City. I haven’t ever been to Europe, or South America, so Mexico City was a big thrill for me, standing on the Zocolo and thinking about history.
Major disappointments: Mainland China in 1976. I was in middle school and went with my dad, who was there on business (very rare in those days). I got very ill and I was scared. The hotel had no air-conditioning and I had never experienced hot + humid like that before.
Most off the beaten path vacation we’ve taken: We started in Chihuahua, Mexico, ventured to Batopilas, at the bottom of the Copper Canyon in Mexico, took the train to the West Coast, recharged in Mazatlan, then bus down and over to Paricutin Volcano in Uruapan, then Mexico City.
Favorite Museum: The Field Museum in Chicago
Bucket list: I’d love to eat and drink my way through Italy. I’d love to explore Santiago, Chile. But most of all, I want to hike in the mountains more, before my body says “no”.
^^China in 1976 is not China today. Day and night. Maybe you should visit again.
Stunningly beautiful: Hawaii (esp. lava falling into the ocean at night from Kilauea), Muir Woods
Favorite City: Chicago
Overrated/Disappointments: Paris, Venice, Naples, Cancun, San Diego. Also not a fan of NYC, Boston or Philly.
Bucket list: Iceland, Norway, New Zealand, Japan, Scandinavia, Vancouver, Prague, Chile
Hilton Head and Charleston! Also, the Big South Fork (in the USA) and Rock City!
That’s why I mentioned it was 1976 and I was in middle school!
I have enjoyed something about all of the places I’ve visited except for Disneyland/World. I think I’ve been to 48 states (missing South Dakota and Hawaii). I actually had a neighbor who took her family to Disneyland EVERY year. I just don’t get it.
That being said, US: Glacier NP, Coastal Redwoods, Sanibel Island, FL (I love beachcombing), Alaska - Denali, Seward Boat Tour, Homer, Boston, Oregon Coast.
Outside the US: Amsterdam, Kenya Safari (Masai Mara and Lakipia - probably our favorite experience), London, China (Terra Cotta Warriors, Guilin were faves), and India (I was enthralled with the culture, appalled by the poverty).
Bucket list: Ireland, and would love to do a extensive tour of Europe.
I’m surprised to see Chicago mentioned as a favorite city. Besides all the violent crime there, I don’t remember much that makes me enthusiastic (except the best popcorn place ever). Brutal winters, nasty airport, air traffic controllers rudest ever, downtown not too spectacular, hot and humid summers. What am I missing here?
Stunningly beautiful: Bhutan, Peru (Cordillera Huayhuash), Ligurian Riviera, Croatia’s islands
Fascinating culturally: Australia (Uluru), Japan, Great Silk Road (Khiva, Bukhara, Samarkand), Greece, Kenya
Major disappointments: Bangkok, New Orleans
Bucket list: Ireland
Favorite place on earth: a small ski town in Colorado
I must be a contrarian: I liked Prague, Barcelona, Amalfi Coast, Venice, Paris, Madrid and many other common suspects, but did not love them
Agree 100% with @dragonmom. I also did a week-long Grand Canyon white water trip and it changed my life too…even though I’m not a geologist. Extremely highly recommended
For the rest of my list…
Beautiful - Croatia - amazing coast, beautiful national parks, and Dubrovnik is a little jewel of a city, Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia
Culturally fascinating - Rome and Paris
Favorite American cities - NYC, San Francisco
It’s interesting that New Orleans thrills some folks but disappoints others. Same with Chicago.
I get how the same place can be great or awful, depending on what their experiences have been. I’ve seen great and not so great of lots of places, even the great outdoors. My home city of Honolulu and state of HI has both wonderful and awful.
I don’t like New Orleans either. Maybe it depends upon what you do there. It was so humid, hot, kind of run down, I didn’t enjoy it.
New Orleans is interesting and had some great food but in my book doesn’t compare with national parks.
I too am not as well traveled as many of you (how have you managed time wise and $$ wise to travel so much - jealous!!)
BUT that said, three favorite places: 1. South of France (beats Paris for me). 2. Oregon Coast (would go back in a heartbeat). 3. Me in a beach chair at our cottage on Lake Huron, Ontario Canada.
Not so favorite place. Florida (don’t get the hype).