I've been a lot of different places in the U.S. - I grew up near the Gateway Arch and frequented Branson (Asians seem to love that place as a tourist destination for some reason). I've been to Universal Studios in Florida as well as Cape Canaveral. I've also been to the Houston Space Center and various little touristy-type places around there.
I've seen several civil war battlegrounds between Missouri, Kentucky, and North Carolina where I've been aboard some of the naval ships on display, there.
I've also been to parts of California to include Camp Pendleton and the bar that was used for a few scenes in Top Gun (since nearly every group I am with eventually comments that I look like Tom Cruise when he was in Top Gun and comes to a unanimous agreement that I do - I classify it as a personal achievement. I'm taller than he is, though, so therefor better).
Internationally, I've been through Narita International (outside of Tokyo) enough times that I can almost claim to have visited Japan. That was on my way to Korea - where I spent most of my time around Chinhae/Jinhae - but ventured out to Pusan and some to Seoul. There was a Buddhist shrine that survived the war that was fun to visit and then, of course, I got to set foot in North Korea before it was cool for feminists to do so when we toured the DMZ.
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I was in this room back in 2009.
Korea gets stupidly humid in the summer, though.
I've also been to the UAE - the Mall of Dubai, the Mall of the Emirates (where they have nothing better to do with money than build an artificial ski resort in the middle of the desert.... and those people take it ****ing serious, too - cutting edge winter suits are on sale from North Face distributors there... Yes - spend $300 on a snow suit for the artificial ski slope that's a couple olympic swimming pools long and about as wide.... "I went to the Persian Gulf and bought a snow suit!"). Saw a lot of ports - got a Chiefs Mess coin from the Enterprise's last cruise before she was decommed.
If you count the Bahamas as international - I've been there. If you're into scuba diving (or even just snorkeling), the water there is as clear as it appears in the pictures. I thought they were making that shit up until I got there.
Future goals include the Balkans.
One of the projects I'd like to do is to try and trace down as much of the history as orally preserved in the area and compile it alongside the records that have been put together from the 'superpowers' that have more written records. This would create a sort of raw historical biography that I would then use as the basis for a something between the lines of non-fiction and fiction.
Basically - the goal would be to write something that reads more like a novel with characters, settings, and dialogue that is accurate to historic events and to the personalities and mentalities as can be inferred from what is known about them.
From the stage that set the grounds for the rebellion against the Ottomans to the modern siege of Sarajevo and into the conflict with Kosovo.
The challenge is finding a native Serbian speaker in the States to learn from. Then there comes the issue of funding for such a thing. Someone from the U.S. can stay without a visa in much of former Yugoslavia for 30 days - up to 90 in some areas. The reality is, also, that such a project requires years of leg-work and getting to know families, their history - the people they hold in high regard and their own connection to their nation's history. That all takes time and a bit more than a simple interview process (and, generally, people don't just start gushing their family legacy just because someone shows up with a pen and paper).
Of course - I highly suspect that my first trip to the Balkans will be in regards to stopping ISIS - but I can't live my life with the expectation that all of the doom and gloom I see is set in stone. Even so - I'll need something to do assuming I survive. I don't expect to - but death doesn't require much thought about what comes afterward. Life does.
