Vote on world’s best places at StoodThere.com

Some of the “100 Greatest Places to Stand on the Planet” on StoodThere.com would probably come to mind immediately for most international travelers. There are the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador, Greece’s Parthenon and Italy’s Colosseum, Stonehenge in England and Petra in Jordan. There’s Mt. Everest, and Red Square, the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls.

But also included are the Ithaa Undersea restaurant in the Maldives (click on above image to see a photo gallery of this one), the Terracotta Army in Xi’an, China, and the Bean in Chicago.

While the list features a ton of Euro-spots, Africa gets little attention thus far. Still, this user-generated list of Earth’s most “wondrous, inspiring or thought-provoking locations” is an interesting one. And one that, until Dec. 1, 2009, is likely to go through various iterations on this photo-sharing website that revolves around the creation of favorites lists.

Once registered on StoodThere.com, you can vote a place up or down the list, and/or suggest other locations for inclusion. Votes will be accepted through Dec. 1, 2009, after which the results will be “given to the World’s Media.” From my humble, laptop-manned station, I, for one, will stay tuned.

- Susan Derby, Special to the Los Angeles Times

[Photos: Top, Ithaa Undersea restaurant, Conrad Maldives Rangali Island; middle photo, North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Susan Spano / Los Angeles Times; bottom photo: Visitors watching sea lions on the Galapagos island of Española, Robert Grimstone / For The Times]

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