Starting with the least obscure: I want to visit all the Disney parks and resorts!! So far I've been to Disney World, and technically Aulani. Though I didn't stay over night, I only had breakfast reservations at their restaurant, so I'm not sure it counts.
I went to Disney World for the first time when I was six, and started to gain interest in the history of the parks and company around ten or eleven when I wrote my first speech for school and chose to write it about Walt Disney's life story.
So, of course, going to all of the Disney parks/resorts has been a bucket list item since I was about twelve.
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| Top: Disneyland Park, Tokyo Disneyland, Shanghai Disneyland Bottom: Hong Kong Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, Aulani Resort and Spa |
Stemming from the same root cause is Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark. Tivoli Gardens is the main theme park which Walt Disney took inspiration from while coming up with Disneyland. There's even a rollercoaster which is still operational today that Walt Disney rode on his visit. It opened in 1843, and is one of the most visited theme parks in the world to this day.
Very creatively.. The name of the rollercoaster Walt Disney rode is "Rutschebanen" which literally translates from Danish as "Rollercoaster".
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| Rutschebanen, AKA The Mountain Coaster |
Moving away from Disney related things, though staying in the real of theme parks (and in Europe), I also really want to visit Efteling (Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands) someday. The park has a huge focus on fairytales, and honestly just looks magical.
I've seen people call it creepy before, but I just don't see that. I think it's rather cute, actually.
Fun fact about me that explains this a bit better: My interest in Disney parks has expanded as I've gotten older. I find a lot of interests in theme parks as a whole, and think they're really cool. This one opened in 1951, so a few years before Disneyland in 1955.
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| A map of Efteling Park |
Europa Park is, as the name suggests, a theme park themed to the countries of Europe. It has areas themed to Germany, England, France, Greece, The Netherlands, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Croatia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Austria, Portugal, Russia, Switzerland, Scandinavia, and Spain.
There are also other themed areas in the park which are not themed to countries such as Adventure Land, Grimms Fairytale Forest, and The Mimimoys Kingdom.
Personally, I most want to explore Grimms Fairytale Forest. I love anything that makes you feel like you've stepped into a fairytale.. Hence the love of theme parks. Not to mention my life long love of Rapunzel in particular, who is featured in that section of the park.
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| Grimms Fairytale Forest |
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| Rapunzel's Tower |
Next up is sort of a theme park, but it's technically a theme water park, which is why I said Europa Park was the last theme park. Volcano Bay in Orlando, Florida.
I have wanted to visit Volcano Bay since it opened in 2017. Much like theme parks, I love water parks. When I was a kid my family went to Great Wolf Lodge every year for my birthday. I love everything about water parks. Floating in the lazy river, sitting by a pool eating lunch that somehow tastes better there than it could anywhere else, going on water slides, it's all fun. Except those water slides that drop you. Those I am scared of.
Okay, now really off the topic of theme parks, including the water variety. I want to go to the Precious Moments Chapel located in Carthage Missouri.
Some background here considering I'm not really Christian (though I was raised Catholic) so this is a little random. My dad used to give me a Precious Moments figurine every Christmas when I was little. I also have them from my first communion, first birthday, Disney collectable ones. I have tons of these figures, and have developed my own interest in them as an adult.
The chapel is absolutely gorgeous and so is everything surrounding it. I mean just look at it.
And now that I've just put a church on this list.. I'm putting Las Vegas next. Not for the sake of gambling though. I actually have zero interest in that at all. I just think it looks really cool. Like a next level version of the Canadian side of Niagara Falls.
It's just complete nonsense, and it's awesome. A giant collection of obscure mismatching tourist traps and disorienting hotels. It's perfect.
I want to go and explore everything SO badly.
Last but certainly not least is the real Scream/Stu Macher house in California. I found out recently that they actually run tours of the house and I LOVE the original Scream.
Maybe a little odd considering it's a horror movie but it is absolutely one of my comfort movies. I adore everything about that movie. I watched nothing except it for like a week straight after I watched it for the first time.
Safe to say if I ever go to California this will be on my list of things to see.
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| A room home to one of the most iconic movie scenes ever |
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