Czech beer....

I find the old and historical buildings in the center of other countries' cities very fascinating. I live in a city where all the old buildings were demolished to build newer style ones, so I don't see a lot of them in my everyday life.

The Redlight district. Every city has/had them and for us it's just normal. As a kid I had to pass some of those windows to get to school.

Penguins, the biggest dessert on the planet, snow blindness

Norwegian fjords. I live here, and to me it's mundane landscape.

The Bob Ross caliber view of the Rocky Mountains should be the answer, but tourists always go for the big stupid churches that just look like every other big stupid church.

Niagara Falls. It's spectacular to visitors for me it's right there so it's just a bunch of water falling off a ledge.

My polish wife was thrilled to see fireflies in Kentucky.

For some reason, Japanese tourists go nuts for PEI. Now I've nothing against PEI, it's a nice enough province in the beautiful maritimes. Good potatoes.

But I don't think it deserves THAT much hype.

No idea.

To answer OP's question, I'm American but spent a few years in the UK. Things that fascinated me included:

• How green it is (being from Texas this was the first thing that stood out to me)
• The shear amount of history that is just everywhere (I remember eat lunch at a park and reading a sign about how it was the site of a huge battle during the war of the roses)
• Pubs (man I miss going to my local. We really don't have 3rd places in the US anymore)

Everything. I live in Orlando.

In Southern California it's got to be the palm trees. Nope, not the ocean, the beaches, the Hollywood sign, iconic neighborhoods and buildings. It's the palm trees. Out of state relatives and coworkers always gawk at and comment on the palm tree lined streets.

I live near the Rocky Mountain line so I've seen it many times. People I've met in other cities I've lived in always say they're jealous that I'm close to such a place but live there long enough and they just become another mountain

Having young men and some women ride public transport in full military get up including their military gun.

I've often overheard tourists talking about them with respect or feeling alarmed something crazy is going on. The funniest one, was an older American tourist asking them for directions and talking very, very, very respectfull to them. The scene was just to comical seeing a boomer being so respectfull towards 18 years old boys.

Meanwhile for us here it's the most normal thing in the world to see a bunch of recruits going home from training or going to their base by train. If anyone feels anything towards them, it's pity. Because most of them are just there because they have to and not because they want to.

For the second question: I really liked the English houses with their red brick facade. Generally a brick facade it's not something I often see here in Switzerland.

Lately it's been the waymos (driverless cars) in San Francisco, assume it's the same in the other couple cities there going. They've been going a couple years now so they've been normalized for locals but every so often I see people taking pictures of them or waving there hands in front of them trying to fuck with them.

Evergreen trees. I know they're a big deal to people who visit but I grew up around them and think they're kind of boring.

Mountains. We got a lot of em

The sea. Fr I grew up here and it's a'ight, but like... People freak out. I feel sad for people who live inland.

Also if you want to see an actual nice beach then get to know some locals and find out where they go. Tourist beaches are always ruined by tourists and tourism businesses.

The locations of past atrocities (N. Ireland).

Not even joking. It's a huge part of our tourism industry. It's like those Jack the Ripper tours in Whitechapel. Living here, you barely even think about them, but visitors act like they're meeting Taylor Swift when they spot a bullet hole, bless 'em.