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Where have you been that you thought was really worth the visit and (relatively) few know of it?

Mesa Verde is very cool.

Aunt and cousin lived in Cortez a few decades before moving to Durango.  Cousin still lives outside Durango.

Beautiful area

It's fairly popular so maybe doesn't fit this thread, but many years ago I spent a couple months working in Portland, Maine, and I really enjoyed it.  Suffice to say the July and August weather there was... refreshing... compared to Central Texas.

And the lobsters were pretty... pretty good.

I like Belize. Conch. One Barrel Rum. They speak English. Climate is warm year 'round.

But locally, the Great River Road from Green Island, Iowa to Garnavillo, Iowa, is scenic. You could even extend your trip north to LaCrosse, Wisconsin, and still see high bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River. We have supper clubs, that most of you don't.

It is the driftless area - not flattened by the last glacial period, i.e. bluffs, high hills, deep valleys. As you cross over the river to America's Dairyland, there are cheese factories, squeaky cheese curds, and all manner of cheeses many (probably most) of you have never heard of, or tasted. Who doesn't like cheese? In this area we have the best tasting pork, summer sausages, bacon, bratwurst, and the choicest beef in the world.

Our seafood is catfish, a bottom feeder; better than no feeder at all. Oops, I forgot the trout in our trout streams, a high quality delicacy; actually trout is a type of salmon.

We enjoyed upper Michigan, stayed a couple nights in Traverse City and three in Marquette in UP.  There was a smoked fish place in the latter that made our dinners at the hotel every night.

The wife did not really care for Mackinac Island, too touristy.  I took her point.

Not a fan either.  Love the northern Michigan lakes, hate Mackinac

The coastal counties of Southern Oregon (Coos & Curry) along with California’s northern most coastal counties (Del Norte, Humboldt, and Mendocino) really struck me as a stretch offering far more than indicative of the attention this region receives. 

The stunning natural coastal scenery along Highway 101 and Pacific Highway 1 rivals anything I’ve seen in Hawaii, along Big Sur, or on the Mediterranean. Cliffs dropping hundreds of feet into the ocean, towering “Sea Stacks” standing at nearly ghostly distances from the shores and matched in impressive height by miles of Redwoods – the world’s tallest trees – soaring at over 200ft, and densely spaced beneath a lofty canopy so thick the shaded forest floor remains dim as dusk despite the sunny mornings driving up the Pacific Coast. Black Bears freely wander along the roads.

Despite the persistence of the highways to remain along the coast, at several points the ruggedness of the landscape forces the highways inland. But even then narrower roads lead to more remote miles of coast, such as Humboldt County’s “Lost Coast,” which might as well be another Hawaiian Island in terms of isolation and dramatic nature.

Further south into Mendocino County the mountains calm into rolling hills covered with vineyards as picturesque as anything you’d see in the Tuscan countryside.

The region is too rugged for quick-access interstates and too sparsely populated to easily fly in – Eureka’s airport is limited to regional connections. At some point I plan on going back to spend more time among the Redwoods and to hike the more remote, no-vehicle-access, coastlines.

But locally, the Great River Road from Green Island, Iowa to Garnavillo, Iowa, is scenic. You could even extend your trip north to LaCrosse, Wisconsin, and still see high bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River. We have supper clubs, that most of you don't.

It is the driftless area - not flattened by the last glacial period, i.e. bluffs, high hills, deep valleys. As you cross over the river to America's Dairyland, there are cheese factories, squeaky cheese curds, and all manner of cheeses many (probably most) of you have never heard of, or tasted. Who doesn't like cheese? In this area we have the best tasting pork, summer sausages, bacon, bratwurst, and the choicest beef in the world.

Our seafood is catfish, a bottom feeder; better than no feeder at all. Oops, I forgot the trout in our trout streams, a high quality delicacy; actually trout is a type of salmon.

the western side of the state isn't as scenic.  unless you like green cultivated fields.  We have the Loess Hills created by the Missouri river which are nice.
We also have the supper clubs with the best beef in the world.