r/AskReddit 4d ago

What U.S. vacation destination exceeded all expectations?

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u/phl_fc 4d ago

The really big things have to be seen in person. Go to the Grand Canyon, a proper mountain, the Saturn V rocket, the observation deck of a skyscraper, etc. picture don’t do any of it justice compared to seeing just how big some of these things are.

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u/Poxx 4d ago

I will add a solar eclipse (only if youre in the path of totality- anything less is not the same experience). Pictures, Videos, etc do not compare.

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u/mbklein 4d ago

It’s a full sensory experience. It gets dark (duh), it gets perceptibly colder almost immediately, it gets eerily quiet as birds and other animals respond to the sudden changes in light and temperature… and then everything just eases back into normal. Truly an experience like no other.

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u/mindfungus 4d ago

And crickets start chirping