Top 5 Travel Destinations

My recommendations for your travel pleasure. I am only recommending stuff I have been to, so that means everything is either in the USA, Canada, or Russia (I have been to one city in Mexico but nothing there is making my list).

Top 5 National Parks: 1) Banff (Alberta); 2) Denali (Alaska); 3) Grand Canyon (Arizona); 4) Yellowstone (mostly in Wyoming); 5) Mammoth Cave (Kentucky).

Top 5 Theme Parks: 1) Disneyland (Anaheim, CA); 2) WDW: Magic Kingdom (near Orlando, FL.); 3) WDW: Epcot (same); 4) WDW: Animal Kingdom (same); 5) WDW: Disney's Hollywood Studios (same)

Top 5 non-Disney owned Theme Parks: 1) Silver Dollar City (Branson, MO); 2) Busch Gardens: The Old Country (Williamsburg, VA); 3) King's Island (near Cincinatti, OH); 4) Sea World (Orlando, FL); 5) Sea World (San Antonio, TX).

Top 5 Roadside Attractions: 1) Wall Drug Store (Wall, SD); 2) Rock City (near Chattanooga, TN); 3) Reptile Gardens (Rapid City, SD); 4) Upper Dells Boat Tour (Wisconsin Dells, WI); 5) Beardale Castle (near Revelstoke, BC. - if it is still open).

Top 5 Historical Museums (single building complex): 1) Buffalo Bill Center (Cody, WY); 2) American History Museum (Washington, DC); 3) Cincinatti Public Museum (guess where?); 4) Yorktown Victory Center (Yorktown, VA); 5) There is no number 5.

Top 5 Historical Museums (multi-building complex): 1) Harold Warp's Pioneer Village (Minden, NE.); 2) Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, VA); 3) Homeplace 1850 (Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area, TN); 4) Jamestown Festival Park (near Williamsburg, VA); 5) Upper Fort Gerry National Historic Site (just north of Winnepeg, MB).

Top 5 Zoos (does not include zoo-ish theme parks like Sea World): 1) San Diego Zoo (San Diego, CA); 2) Fort Worth Zoo (Fort Worth, TX); 3) St. Louis Zoo (St. Louis, MO); 4) Brookfield Zoo (near Chicago, IL); 5) Cincinatti Zoo (guess where again).

Top 5 Historical Homes: 1) White House (Washington, DC); 2) The Hermitage (St. Petersburg, Russia); 3) Monticello (near Charlottesville, VA); 4) Biltmore House and Gardens (Asheville, NC); 5) Mount Vernon (near Alexandria, VA).

Top 5 Shopping Centers: 1) Mall of America (Bloomington, MN); 2) West Edmonton Mall (Edmonton, AB); 3) Opry Mills (Nashville, TN); 4) Grapevine Mills (Grapevine, TX); 5) Underground Mall (Moscow, Russia)

There are other categories of course but I do have other things to do other than blog.