I was just thinking about how it's weird that I've never been to the Biltmore House or Tryon Palace but it seems like almost every who grew up in NC has been to one of those if not both of those places. I just never went on a school trip there or visited with my family.

I have also never gone on an history tour of Winston-Salem, which seems like something most people have done.

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9/5/2011 4:58:56 PM

I've never seen sawahash's twin peaks

9/5/2011 5:01:06 PM

Winston-Salami.

9/5/2011 5:03:09 PM

Never seen the Acorn drop.

9/5/2011 5:04:03 PM

I've never been to the Biltmore House

Old Salem is dope, how could you not have gone? Moravian cookies, man.

9/5/2011 5:06:21 PM

I haven't seen all the lighthouses yet.

9/5/2011 5:06:44 PM

never heard of tryon palace, done pretty much all the rest from kitty hawk to biltmore

9/5/2011 5:06:44 PM

^seriously? You've never heard of Tryon Palace?

9/5/2011 5:08:13 PM

i was 18 before i ever went to the outer banks, and i grew up in Wilson

i, too, have never been to the places listed in the OP, never been to Boone either (random)

9/5/2011 5:08:24 PM

9/5/2011 5:12:05 PM

In a thread about places you've never been, Supplanter posts pictures of places he's visited.

9/5/2011 5:14:24 PM

Quote :

"^seriously? You've never heard of Tryon Palace?"

it's not even the real thing... it's just a reconstruction.

9/5/2011 5:15:26 PM

^^lol

I need to get to the rest of the lighthouses and kitty hawk.

I haven't been to Moore's Creek Battleground.

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9/5/2011 5:16:21 PM

^^^I prefer to think of it as: In a discussion about NC Landmarks, Supplanter posts pictures of NC landmarks.

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9/5/2011 5:17:00 PM

I've only been to Charlotte once, I think. 2005 Tire Bowl. I've been through a few times and stopped for food, but that's the only time I've stuck around.

9/5/2011 5:18:57 PM

I've never seen Supplanter's tower

9/5/2011 5:19:16 PM

no, never heard of it, where/what is it? also Boone is awesome

9/5/2011 5:19:39 PM

i wasn't sure exactly what it was until i just googled it... it is some cheesy tourist attraction built in New Bern in the 50's.

9/5/2011 5:26:06 PM

Old Salem

9/5/2011 5:27:47 PM

I've never been to the Outer Banks. I've also never been to Mt. Mitchel.

9/5/2011 5:27:58 PM

i haven't been to all the lighthouses but i've never been interested in going to them either. i've been to lookout several times though.

Moore's Creek Battleground doesn't ring a bell. i went on a bajillion field trips w/ school & w/ some retired teacher lady who just liked to take groups of kids on field trips, but i don't remember that one.

i had never been to charlotte until a couple of years ago with a convention for work. also had never been to wilmington until my brother was moving into a dorm at uncw 5 or so years ago. i spent a lot of my summers at little river off albemarle sound & later to emerald isle, so if we went somewhere as a family, it was to our place there.

others:
biltmore house
mt mitchell
acid park/that whirligig place in wilson (i'm in rocky mount, everybody else has gone i think)

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9/5/2011 5:38:04 PM

tryon palace

^whirlygigs are neat. pick a windy day to go.

9/5/2011 5:39:18 PM

Quote :

"it's not even the real thing... it's just a reconstruction."

Like most post WWII German cities and people still marvel at them.

9/5/2011 5:40:33 PM

i've been to almost all the main things...

i have not been to:

linville caverns
mt. mitchell

that's the only 2 things i can think of that haven't been mentioned

9/5/2011 5:42:16 PM

Linville Caverns are crazy when you go in and the cut off the lights...there is literally no light, it's one of the strangest feelings ever...

9/5/2011 6:03:43 PM

As a kid, I saw all those commercials for the Ghost Town in the Sky (Maggie Valley), and the Tweetsie Railroad. I always wanted to go there, but never did. Tweetsie you're a blast from the past.

9/5/2011 6:24:21 PM

I went to Ghost Town a couple times when I was like 4-5 yrs old

I remember being scared at the gunfights because I thought they were real and I might get shot

9/5/2011 6:31:59 PM

I've never been to the Lost Colony of Roanoke, Kitty Hawk, never been to a race at Charlotte or Rockingham... hell I've never been to Wilmington.

Though I'm not from NC so I get a pass I think...

9/5/2011 6:33:46 PM

Linville Caverns and the Outerbanks is about all that's left on my list.

9/5/2011 7:02:19 PM

Oh I've never been to that Mystery Hill on your way to Boone...I think that's what it's called.

9/5/2011 7:04:18 PM

old salem
biltmore house (although i tried and they were surprisingly closed)
downtown asheville
greenville
downtown fayetteville
cape lookout
ocracoke

never heard of tyrone's place

9/5/2011 7:31:37 PM

hahahhahahha

9/5/2011 7:32:45 PM

i havent ever been to carrowinds.

9/5/2011 7:33:21 PM

I've seen all the "important" ones. My family was too cheap to go anywhere out of state for family vacations. Except the "big" vacation to Busch Gardens.

9/5/2011 7:33:36 PM

Quote :

" ^whirlygigs are neat. pick a windy day to go."

Acid park is a night time thing.

I've only seen a few, I guess. That list is probably shorter than places I haven't been. Went to some light house, don't even remember which one, it was near the Hatteras one. Seen Hatteras from a distance. Kitty hawk. Seen grandfather mountain. Bell tower, obviously... I pissed on the old well at UNC. Been in the state capitol building. That's about it I guess

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9/5/2011 7:37:31 PM

i've never been to any of the things posted in this thread...


well...except acid park because my school bus went by it every day of my life

9/5/2011 7:38:01 PM

dad was stationed at Bragg for 2 years when I was young so we would go see him and hit up pretty much everything in NC and SC

9/5/2011 7:48:50 PM

I went to Boone for the first time ever this weekend

so now I need to check off the list: Carowinds and Kitty Hawk

9/5/2011 8:01:14 PM

When I lived up in Hickory we had season passes to Carowinds....it was fun when I was in middle school...but then it was the same ole same ole everytime...Scarowinds was pretty cool though.

9/5/2011 8:40:34 PM

I've driven by the biltmore house a few times, but never actually been there. Never been to Linville Caverns either.

9/5/2011 8:44:27 PM

^^ I did not know you lived in Hickory...Did you grow up there?

Not that it's necessarily a landmark, but I have never been to Mystery Hill in Blowing Rock. I've been everywhere else listed so far.

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9/5/2011 8:47:00 PM

I lived in Conover during middle school and high school

9/5/2011 8:47:44 PM

I've done most everything in the western 1/3 of the state but plenty of stuff in the peidmont and coast I haven't seen (or heard of)

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9/5/2011 8:58:20 PM

only lighthouse I've not seen is Currituck

I've also never been to The Biltmore

9/5/2011 9:29:21 PM

Pilot mountain

9/5/2011 9:52:00 PM

Whoever called Tyron a "cheesy tourist attraction" is a bit off. They actually went through great efforts to keep things historically accurate (namely moving a shit ton of stuff to build on the original foundations). I mean, is the White House a cheesy tourist attraction because it burned down and had to be reconstructed? hmm?

9/5/2011 9:57:24 PM

devils stomping ground

batter/acid park (or some shit like that)

um lemme think of others

i guess those were just spooky/folklore places but still

9/5/2011 10:00:40 PM

I wouldnt bother with devils stomping ground. Shit was pretty lame.

9/5/2011 10:06:18 PM

Never been to:
-Tryon Palace
-Mt. Mitchell
-Blowing Rock
-Grandfather Mountain
-Linville Caverns
-Cape Lookout Lighthouse
-Currituck Lighthouse

I didn't get to the Outer Banks until I was 27. Been there several times since though.

9/5/2011 10:09:55 PM

i've never seen Hatteras

9/5/2011 10:15:17 PM