Torres del Paine National Park, Chile

Towers reach the sky
In far Patagonia
And at the world's end

Torres del Paine National Park

Rapa Nui National Park, Easter Island, Chile

Faces of ancestors
Stand watching over the land
With backs to the sea.

Rapa Nui National Park

Grand Canyon, Arizona, United States

A mighty river,
Cutting through millions of years,
Dividing squirrels.

Grand Canyon

Moissac Abbey, Moissac France

Jeremiah greets
Pilgrims through the centuries
From behind lions.

Moissac Abbey

Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy

From light of gold stones
Justinian looks from
Lost Byzantium

San Vitale

To start.

This is pretty simple. It's a list of places I would like to see before I die. There is no way I will see all of them or even a sizeable percentage, but you have to dream, right?

These are not presented in order of desirability, instead I have made a set of tables containing every county and territory on earth and and am using a random number generator to pick a country. I then choose a place within that country that I want on this list. The table is heavily weighted towards some areas of the world over others, and to some countries within those areas. the biases should become once enough places have been chosen.

Some of the items on this list are new discoveries for me, as I had never really thought much about visiting that area of the world or that country in the past. Some are places I wanted to visit for years, if not decades. Some I have visited in the past, but they are still on the list for a return trip.