IDEA: The ultimate website to track and suggest places to visit
There are so many great lists of places to go, and things to see.
• 10 Most Magnificent Trees in the World
• 100 Places To See Before You Die
• Top 10 Most Peculiar Places in the World
• Dangerous Roads of the World
• World's Wildest Roller Coasters
• World's Most Interesting Bridges
• 10 of the Narrowest Houses in the World
• 10 Coolest Small Towns
• Top 50 Places to Have a Beer in America
• 10 great places to moon over a big pizza pie
• Top 30 Skylines of The World
How can one keep track of all these places? There should be a website where you can list ALL the specific places you want to visit. So if you are ever visiting Peoria, you’ll know that they have the Hubcap House, Wheels of Time Museum, and Giant Solar System Model. The site that comes the closest to doing this is RoadsideAmerica.com, here is their Illinois Map. But you can’t add locations to this site. It would be great to have the platform open to anyone to add locations and lists.
43places.com allows uers to add destinations and places, but they limit you to 43 places on your list. Here’s my list. It’s a great community site, but that 43 limit. Aargh!
Eventually I’d love this to be an open standard system where any travel site will have a standard button for each destination. You can click that button, and it will automatically add that destination to your list of places you want to visit. I have a feeling something like this should be achievable with Google Maps.
Lists like the ones mentioned above would be integrated into the site. So if you are at a particular location, you can see if it appears in any list. e.g. If you are at Chicago’s Gold Coast Dogs, you can see that the Chicago Sun-Times listed as the Best Hot Dog and hamburger in Chicago.
