Weirdest place you've taken your spouse

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My wife and I are coming up on our 10 year anniversary and we've arranged to travel to the Bruce Peninsula, which has a couple of beautiful parks and is a significant portion of the dividing line between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. While we are there I've prearranged for a tour of Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, which is an 8-unit CANDU site and the most powerful Nuclear facility in the world by output at ~48TWh a year. She was surprisingly on-board with the adventure, so I'm not complaining, however it has not escaped me that from an outsider's perspective, that taking your wife to tour a power plant on your anniversary is pretty odd.

So my fellow BITOGers, who else has taken their spouse somewhere that other people, even ones that know you, would take pause and ask "why?" or say "what??!?"

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Junkyards.
Seriously, when I've scavenged parts for various ancient machines over the years, my wife has come along.
I'm older now and there are many really cheap sources of new and used parts to be found online, so my yarding days are mostly over. Most of the old stuff got crushed in the high scrap price era of the early 2000s anyway, although I do know of one yard about twenty miles north of here that never crushes anything. The problem is that stuff that's been sitting since the sixties in our temperate climate with 42" annual precipitation is pretty well gone anyway.
I'm sure my wife isn't too disappointed.
 
Longhorn Steakhouse. I've carefully cultivated an image of that place to be exquisitely fine dining for when I want to splurge on a night out.
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So far it's worked out perfectly!

Really, the weirdest place I ended up with my spouse was when I took a wrong turn off a freeway in Chicago and ended up in a convention center's basement loading area. D'oh!
 
I used to work at a power plant which had two gas combustion turbines and a steam generator. It was pretty cool getting the tour from the plant manager so I'm sure a nuclear reactor would be even more interesting. At the time, I knew that one of the blades had broken off one of the turbines a few years back and it made so much noise the next town heard it so I just hoped that a blade didn't break while I was there.
 
Originally Posted By: fdcg27
Junkyards.
Seriously, when I've scavenged parts for various ancient machines over the years, my wife has come along.
I'm older now and there are many really cheap sources of new and used parts to be found online, so my yarding days are mostly over. Most of the old stuff got crushed in the high scrap price era of the early 2000s anyway, although I do know of one yard about twenty miles north of here that never crushes anything. The problem is that stuff that's been sitting since the sixties in our temperate climate with 42" annual precipitation is pretty well gone anyway.
I'm sure my wife isn't too disappointed.


That's cool.

She's not my spouse yet, but she's junkyarded with me a few times. We've even found a few things for her Volvo. I'm so thankful she's into cars as much as me.
 
Originally Posted By: skyactiv
My wife and I visited a crypt while in Paris.


OK, now that's pretty awesome! Your idea or hers?
 
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Originally Posted By: skyactiv
My wife and I visited a crypt while in Paris.


OK, now that's pretty awesome! Your idea or hers?


It was on the itinerary led by a tour guide. She planned the trip.
 
A coworker of mine had her husband take her on a tour of Kingston Penitentiary once.
 
I took my wife to a porn movie theater when we were first married.
She neither liked or disliked it.
Never took her again.
 
I actually had to think about this one since we enjoy things that others would call "weird." I even asked her and surprisingly, she thought of the same thing as me.

5 years ago, a friend's roommate (the homeowner) was having a little cookout at his place. He invited my now girlfriend and I as well as 2 other friends. We met the host one other time, but she had met my other 2 friends several times. We get there and my friend isn't there yet. The host insisted on waiting for everyone else, which was no big deal. We found out one friend apparently had car trouble, (which I somewhat believe because he bought a new car shortly after.), but the friend that lived there had no excuse. So basically it was just the 3 of us and we hardly knew him.

He showed us this huge water tank in his garage that was getting ready to collapse. He somehow strapped it to the roof of his caviler and apparently was going to use for collecting water. He also showed us his pineapple that he was growing from a plastic container. Despite of what my friend told me, it turned out that he did not have a grille and the cooking was going to be done over a fire. He was burning bags of trash and old particle board counter tops; not actual wood. The flames were green.

We did not eat there and only stayed a little over an hour.
 
We often visit graveyards. We're both interested in genealogy and sometimes find interesting things there.

We also have a great respect for the past and like to visit the graveyards in our respective home towns and "visit" with old friends. Many of the people we once knew are there. We walk along and say things like, "Oh look here's xxx. I remember him/her. He/She was the one who ..."

They're also kind of peaceful.
 
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