Shakespeare's grave site and Michelangelo's David in Florence.

I'd have to agree with some of the comments above - Coming upstairs from the "lower church" at Ste. Chappelle to see the magnificent stained glass in the upper church!! Seeing Michelangelo's David in the Accademia for the first time. Emerging from the subway stop staircase to the the Colosseum looming large - we literally stopped in our tracks!!

Walking thru the Jewish cemetary in Prague at dusk, just before closing. <BR> <BR>Every turn of every corner in Venice, especially to glimpse St.Mark's for the first time.

Not, strictly speaking, a sight, but anyway - we had tickets waiting for us for the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services at Westminster Abbey. Went to pick them up the day before Christmas Eve. Got them, went into the Abbey (I had never been there before) and there was a service going on. We sat down and the choir began singing "All We Like Sheep" from "Messiah" - my jaw dropped, alright. And my eyes filled. I'll never forget it.

There have been so many, a lot of them already mentioned above. But my favorite was two statues in the Capella Sansevero in Naples, the Veiled Christ and the Veiled Madonna. They still amaze me, and I've seen them many times.

My jaw dropped when I first saw the tourquoise blue of the Carribbean waters, the color of Lake Louise in Banff, and the multitude of fabrics at a Provençal open market. <BR> <BR>Liz

The first time we saw a 7/11 store in Madrid........I couldn't believe they had gotten that far outside the U.S. They DIDN'T have slurpies(sp)though!

When I was twenty years old I spent thirty days traveling around western Europe. The strongest memory I have of that trip is the colosseum. (My memory of Venice was cats!) Forty years later I am returning to Rome and am curious to see if the colosseum will have the same affect on me.

Driving down Princes Street in Edinburgh and looking out and seeing the Castle all lit up at night...breathtaking!

<BR>The gorgeous, green, mountainous Island of Bora Bora surrounded by all that incredible beautiful, clear, agua water.

The unrestored portion of the Great Wall half way through my 7 hour hike. Unbelievable views and an amazing feeling as being part of history.

The sistine Chapel in Vatican City. <BR> <BR>No matter how prepared I was for it my jaw dropped when I actually saw the ceiling and the Last Judgement for the first time. <BR> <BR>Just WOW!

I've travelled to many places over the years and many of hte jaw dropping places have already been mentioned. I'd add these: <BR> <BR>1) Many years ago, I was one of two people invited into the cockpit of a small commercial aircraft and as I looked up, there in front of us was an entire stretch of the Himalays, and right in the middle of our view was the awesome sight of Mt. Everest. <BR> <BR>2) Paris at night. Too many places to mention. <BR> <BR>3) Recently, as our cruise ship left Wrangell Alaska, we were treated to a breathtaking vista of gorgeous mountains. It was indescribable with snow capped mountains bathed in the pink glow of dusk and sunset. Wrangell to me is the most beautiful of all the beautiful ports we visited in Alaska. <BR> <BR>Great thread!

<BR>Black sand highland desert at the foot of thousands acres of glaciers in Iceland.

There are two I can remember. The first was getting of out Air Kenya flight after landing in the Amboseli National Park, turning around and seeing five elephants in the foreground and Mt. Kilimanjaro in the background--simply breathtaking. The second would have to be the mosaic in the church on the island of Torcello in the Venetian lagoon--spellbinding!

I have been lucky enough to have dropped my jaw at the Grand Canyon, (grew up around Niagara Falls and since kids don't drop their jaws, I don't know if that would cause me, as an adult, to do so); the grand canal from the train station; David in Florence...but the longest my jaw dropped was upon seeing the Dome of the Rock and the Western Wall. Looking forward to brand new jaw droppings in Paris this fall! <BR>Lucky meeeee

1) My first view across the St. Lawrence of Expo 67 with the Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome. <BR> <BR>2) Coming out of the tube station and seeing Big Ben <BR> <BR>3) Looking up and seeing Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha where my college baseball team would be playing in the College World Series.

Grand Caynon <BR>Rockie Mountains <BR>The view from inside the abbezia at <BR>Montecassino,Italy.

Definitely the Taj Mahal.

1. Auschwitz-Birkenau 2. Hagia Sophia 3. the main cemetery at Verdun 4. the cliffs west of Omaha Beach 5. Mt. Etna in eruption at night 6. A hurricane at sea off Hatteras.