What's the most interesting historical place you have visited?

I was coming back from the Czech Republic last week after a job interview there, and while I sat on the train, I thought about the places I've been to that really stand out historically and haven't forgotten. I was wondering what historical places stand out in your guys' minds that you have visited, and what impression they had? I know a lot of us love history, so I wondering what you guys think?

Visiting the Liberty Bell was probably the most historical place I have been to...

When you have never left Arkansas for more than two days, you only see few historical locations. The first one is Little Rock Central High School, the site where nine brave black men and women sent a message to all the racists of the US that there days as the top dogs of society were numbered. The other is the site of the famous Hanging Judge, Judge Parker. Sentenced tons of Native Americans to death as they made their way threw the area(Fort Smith, AR).

- Gettysburg. Walking up to Cemetery Ridge where Pickett's Charge took place. It gave me goosebumps.
- Coloma, California, standing on the spot where Marshall discovered gold, sparking the California Gold Rush.
- Walking around an ancient Hawaiian temple near Waimea Falls, and meeting a Native Hawaiian who was tending the site.
- Walking along the old city walls of Quebec City and across the Plains of Abraham.
- Standing at the foot of the Reichstag in Berlin.
- Touching the old Roman walls in my city here in Germany that date back to the rein of Marcus Aurelius.
- Walking through an airfield that was filled with old rusting Yugoslav jet fighters and bombers in Belgrade.

I still think the most memorable and haunting historical place I've ever been to was Auschwitz in Poland. I don't think I'll forget that for as long as I live.

Berlin
Paris
Warsaw
Rome
Munich (i live here)
Stockholm
St. Petersburg

Port of Los angeles, and I have been to Hollywood like a million times.

Nothing of any note at all. Australia has no history.

Rome and Iceland are among them, but without a doubt the most interesting place I've ever been is Pompeii.
Seriously, if you ever get the chance to go there, go there.

I'd absolutely love to see Pompeii!

Rome hands down the first

Paris

And many Finnish historical places and tallinn...

The thing about Pompeii is that while there are places that have existed for year you can walk around (Rome, for example), Pompeii is still in the state it was just after the eruption (without a lot of the ashes, of course). You're literally walking where people have walked 2000 years ago. That feeling you get, that sensation is just incredible.

Same feeling when you walk on the forum mate or you see the pantheon. I get your point but the same things can be experienced in Rome.. I also would love to visit Pompeii

Not really, at least not for me. Especially since the Pantheon is filled with crosses and Jesus statues, and when I visited, the Forum was being renovated and littered with modern art (the fuck, man?). In Pompeii, that was completely different. It was so vast and well preserved compared to anything I'd seen before, you could see frescos on the inner walls, political scribblings on the outer walls, and the husks of the remains of the people they found when excavating are just fucking creepy, man.

Well pantheon has been there so long. Yes the inside has chanced time to time but I
Appreciate the beauty of it. When I visited the forum it wasn't being renovated and it didn't have modern art (you went in at the wrong time) and the colosseum gives the same feeling. (also nearly cried when I thought that Julius Caesar among many others had their triumph where I stood )
but the pantheon to me is almost the most important cultural place to humanity. And shows that religion isn't eternal but human ingenuity is.

Oh, they are indeed beautiful. And I did go at the wrong time, they were also busy renovating the Colosseum, so it didn't look as awesome as it could, but it was still overwhelming, especially when I read the entire stadium could be empty within minutes (for comparison, De Kuip, a modern stadium with a similar capacity takes ages to empty, been there plenty of times).

As for the Pantheon, it almost made me sad to see all the Christian signs in there. Even though I'm not religious of any kind, but it almost felt like sacrilege to me.

East and West Wings of the White House, US Capitol Building, Mt. Vernon, Arlington National Cemetery.

It's been a dream of mine since childhood to walk the streets of Pompeii, see the houses, the mosaics, the plaster casts of the Romans killed by Vesuvius. I can imagine it's like stepping into a time machine there.

Arlington National Cemetery was also really memorable for me. I guess you saw the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers too?

It's a truly amazing experience. The one thing that ruined it for me was the shitty guide who was constantly talking on the phone to someone.

Well most of the important parts of London,Brussels,Hungarian parliament and the place of the place where the Pan-European picknic happened.