Travel Bucket List

Australia
Italy

This is an extremely difficult question b/c Travljini wants to go everywhere.  I find there are remarkable and beautiful things in most everywhere I go, but........

• INDIA INDIA INDIA!!!  You will never see anything like it in your life.  And it seems trite to say but seeing the Taj Mahal was just a magnificent experience (among many others in the country)
• Safari somewhere in Africa.  You will come to abhor zoos upon return
• Ankgor Wat in Cambodia.  Right up there with the Taj - though since I've been I know it's become quite touristic, but the scale to which they built the temples is just awe inspiring.
• Myanmar.  (Leaving out the political and ethical debate here) Another remarkable stop that sets you back years because of the suppression of information allowed into the country.  Inle Lake is an amazing area with homes on stilts and floating gardens.  Also home to the most Buddhist monks and nuns in the world.
• Anywhere in Central America -- El Salvador, there wasn't a tourist to be seen hardly and the beauty and local culture phenomenal -- most countries outside of the Belize Cays & some parts of Nicaragua are fairly non touristic, which imho makes for a nicer journey
• Someone mentioned Italy -- another GREAT place. Cylcing there was great.  The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican an amazing sight

Ok I better stop -- there are really just a number of magnificent stops so as someone mentioned find what you're most interested and go from there.  I can't open a National Geographic and not find somewhere I want to go :-)  One thing I did start doing after I went to AFrica is I decided hot, third world countries needed to be seen first because they aren't easy, and as my age increases, my desire for "toughing" it is diminishing.(I know go figure, yet I'll subject myself to a HIM)  So that's sort of how hubster and I have planned our travels.  We're sort of saving the 1st World, temperate climate areas for the later years in life, <lol>

Like Traveljini, I feel it's hard to pick.  I think anywhere you haven't been should be on the list   I am obsessed with traveling.

For a new international traveler, but looking for a cool experience, I would recommend anywhere in Europe.  I would like to explore more parts of eastern Europe like Croatia for instance.  Less traveled (so far), beautiful Mediterranean, etc.   Sounds more fun to me, than say, the south of France.  But still safe, same type of food options as any place in Europe.

I like to target good historical stuff.  There are a million good things to see in Rome.  They accomplished feats of engineering not even dreamed of by the settlers in the US, a 1400 years later!  Amazing.  I am very interested in Berlin.  Any place with WWII stuff is interesting, I think. 

I am an anglophile, so I thought London and England at large was full of amazing things. Stonehenge is cooler than you'd think, but London even is jammed with interesting history.

Some resources of ideas:

Seven Wonders of the World list

the UNESCO world heritage site list

I see your response about not being terribly interested in history.  I felt the same way, until I really saw historical things.  It's hard to imagine the history available until you get out of the US where our history is so short and frankly boring.    And often the historical stuff is really just visiting a cool building and seeing the "sights".

I loved Paris.  For something into wine, people watching, etc, that is where it's at.

I think for natural sights, South Africa or anywhere in Africa is a good target for you.  But go with a reputable group, etc. and know what you're getting into.  Something to remember when you travel outside of the US is that you are not protected in the same way you are around here.  The police are not always your friend, for instance.