25 Travel Destinations That Will Change Your Life

25 Travel Destinations That Will Change Your Life
This undated image provided by New Mexico Tourism shows the historic plaza in Santa Fe, N.M., lit up for Christmas. A blend of Spanish, Anglo and Native traditions mark the holiday season in New Mexico. (AP Photo/New Mexico Tourism , Richard Khanlian)
This undated image provided by New Mexico Tourism shows the historic plaza in Santa Fe, N.M., lit up for Christmas. A blend of Spanish, Anglo and Native traditions mark the holiday season in New Mexico. (AP Photo/New Mexico Tourism , Richard Khanlian)

What makes certain trips so memorable? Is it because we had to save beaucoup bucks to go on them? Or is it because we completed them with a special loved one? Is it because we enjoyed them so much we'd do them over and over again? Or is it all or none of the above?

Over the past several months, we've written about travel destinations that should be on your bucket list in 2014. We've also written about bucket-list travel destinations you'll almost definitely never get to see.

And now we're writing about memorable trips that have actually transformed our readers. For this senior editor, the place would be Antigua, Guatemala, a colonial city that instantly transports you back hundreds of years. The city is where I got married, became a foreign correspondent and fell in love with Latin America. What place changed you? We asked our Facebook fans to name the destinations that made an enormous impact on their lives and received a wide range of responses. Check out just 25 of them below and feel free to add your own memorable trips in comments.

1) "Paris. And I WILL go back," said Sharon Hodor Greenthal.

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6) "Arlington National Cemetery," said Gary Tanner.

7) "Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons!" said Christine Boone.

8) "Marseille, France. Enchanting!" said Maria Regina Encarnação.

10) "Siena, Italy," said Kathy Grand.

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11) "Montecatini, a Tuscan resort-like town," said Michelle Ethridge.

12) "Glacier Park. Beautiful!!!" said Julie Lee Smith.

13) "Cadiz, Spain," said Joyce Halee.

14) "Tokyo, Japan. Love the people," said Mary Fremont Rautis.

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18) "Ubud, Bali," said Jane West.

19) "Pompeii, Italy," said Sandra Kay Prevo.

20) "Martha's Vineyard!" said Alicia Bravo.

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21) "The Isle of Man," said Sanna McIvor.

22) "The Vatican," said Rhonda Jo Hollaway-Epperly.

23) "Sitges, Spain below Barcelona," said Michael Fazakerley.

25) "Israel," said Marsha Moss Linehan.

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