Anonymous wrote:The beach in Lanikai, HI is stunning. White sand, turquoise water, so beautiful.

Also loved Crater Lake.

I’m wondering if I posted this, because I’d have said this.

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the inside of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul - I can understand why it was one of the original "seven wonders" of the world, your brain just cannot take in the beauty and expanse of it.

It is amazing. But it wasn’t one of the original seven wonders of the world. It was built around 800 or 900 years after the last of the original seven wonders.

Lake carhuacocha on huayhuash circuit - Peru

For me it is ski areas. Alta, Chamonix, Aspen are beautiful to me.

*If you are a regular person with $$$ based on these answers.

Cliffs in Kauai
Glacier, Canyonlands, and Great Sand Dunes NP sand Beartooth Mountains MT - especially sunrise and sunset far from other people

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Anonymous wrote:There is natural beauty everywhere. Just sitting soundfront in Duck, NC. Sitting on a vineyard hill in western Loudoun. I mean I could name 100 places just within a 6 hour drive from here.

This is the best post on the thread. Too often we overlook the beauty right in our backyard.

Agree. I’ve sort of avoided this thread because I expected it to turn into a pretentious circle jerk, but this is true. It’s all over the place.

Anywhere in Switzerland. Yosemite too.

Anonymous wrote:I forgot one - the edge of Lucerne river at dusk

This. Or any time in Lucerne.

Anonymous wrote:There is natural beauty everywhere. Just sitting soundfront in Duck, NC. Sitting on a vineyard hill in western Loudoun. I mean I could name 100 places just within a 6 hour drive from here.

This is the best post on the thread. Too often we overlook the beauty right in our backyard.

I forgot one - the edge of Lucerne river at dusk

The Serengeti. Size, mostly.
the inside of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul - I can understand why it was one of the original "seven wonders" of the world, your brain just cannot take in the beauty and expanse of the place

gardens in Suffolk, England in the height of summer
Hampton Court Gardens, because they have been curated in such a way as to seem wondrous and mystical

the night sky over the Arizona desert

The “welcome to washington, dc” sign on the key bridge

Esalen in Big Sur. And I've traveled quite a bit.

There is natural beauty everywhere. Just sitting soundfront in Duck, NC. Sitting on a vineyard hill in western Loudoun. I mean I could name 100 places just within a 6 hour drive from here.