Maybe it was the rose-colored glasses...
Amber…bamberboo: I've been fortunate in that I've travelled a bit and have seen some very beautiful places but if I am forced to choose 'the most beautiful place' I would choose Norway... maybe it's because I was 17. Maybe it's because I fell head over hills for this beautiful Norwegian creature while I was there; and maybe it's because when you're 17 and in love you see the world through rose coloured glasses... but it was an amazing place.

Home sweet home.
Dishgirl: My bathroom shower where it's quiet, warm, and relaxing!
Susan: Seattle, WA. Or my house right after my housekeeper leaves.
Holli: While I would love to write about some fabulous and exotic destination.. being a totally single mom who has to work - there are times I feel like I'm literally going to drop where I stand. So.. when I get to visit my family and I know I can go back home, crawl into a bed and have someone else take the wheel for just a couple of hours - that "beautiful place" would be home sweet home.. or bed sweet bed, to be more specific. Lord I can't wait for the holidays - I hope Santa brings me a NAP!!!
Tiiana: In my bed, fast asleep, so deeply I couldn’t be immediately awaken. Simple thing that it happens to be the most beautiful place I’ve ever been.
Meghan: My back yard after a heavy snow.
Beth: Ordinarily I would say the Pont du Arts in Paris (I'm sure I spelled that wrong), but these days I would have to say my bed with my husband on the other side and the baby in the middle. (I know, gag.)
Lucinda: Any place where the liquor flows freely, my husband is at my side, and the children are home with a mousy and reliable babysitter.

O Canada!
Ann Douglas: The Canadian Rockies. My parents took me to Banff when I was nine. I can still remember how awestruck I was the first time I took in the view.
Pamalamadingdong: Elliot Lake Ontario
DaniGirl: Probably canoeing at dawn in Algonquin Park, although I could think of about 50 answers to this question.
Desperate To Be A Housewife: In the Rocky Mountains near Banff, Alberta.

I hear there's like 10 men for every one woman. Or maybe that's bears. Hmm...
Charity: Kenai, Alaska

Down by the sea
Krisco: Kauai, Hawaii. I am sure I ought to say somewhere more
ephemeral and romantic like Rome (love it) or Florence (eh) or the Eiffel Tower at midnight. But nothing beats palm trees, eighty-two degrees and gentle breezes over a beautiful ocean view. Oh, and it helps if you are looking at this from the grounds of the Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort and Spa and have a Mai Tai in your hands. Even if you have to (ahem) sneak onto the grounds to get there.
Carmen: Like every other person will answer, the Caribbean.
Justice: Palau, Micronesia
Karen: Diving off the coast of Cayman Islands. Magical.
Jen Lawrence: Phuket, Thailand. One of the most beautiful places on earth.
Tuesday Girl: St. Lucia for our honeymoon. We plan to go back soooon. As in I need a vacation immediately or I might kill one of you soon.

Bonus points for using "chartreuse" in her answer.
Dawn: The backroads of Vermont. Any time of the year, but the vibrant chartreuse of Spring is my favorite, especially after a long winter and longer mud season.

California Dreamin'
Mindy: It may not be the most objectively beautiful place ever, but I remember catching my breath and being rooted to the spot the first time I stood on the cliffs above La Jolla Shores in San Diego. I was sixteen years old and decided on the spot that I would go to college there, and I did!
Sour Duck: Highway 1 Scenic Drive, California coastline. Be sure and stop by Hearst Castle!
Jenijen: There is a beach in Big Sur, I think it's Julia Pfiffer State Beach (?) that you can only get to by going down this LONG road that just looks like a driveway off of Highway One. The road itself is amazing; it goes through a lush, hilly forest of ferns and huge mossy trees. I don't think you can really see any structures from the beach, and there are great giant rocks and tide pools. Heaven.

The Blue Danube
Elisa Camahort: The nighttime view from the Hotel Intercontinental on the Danube River in Budapest. There's a huge palace on the hill across the river all lit up, plus the Chain Bridge across the river, also all lit up. It's the most I've ever felt like I was actually living in a postcard. 2nd choice would be the ocean waters off of the coast of Victoria, British Columbia. There are pods of whales that live there year-round, they're not migratory. So you can have 30 or 40 of them swimming all around your boat. Coolest thing ever.

Spectacular Sunsets
Emily G: Israel. When I visited Yad Vashem (the Holocaust memorial museum), the sun set just as we were leaving and hit the limestone buildings on the opposite hill in a way that left me breathless - rosy glow and peace everywhere. It was especially moving in that moment because Yad Vashem is extremely depressing.
la Mala: Puerto Aysen , Chile. One night the sky turned orange and it rained. It was amazing.

I hear they have wine, too!
Graceful: The open area in France where they've got rolling hills of vineyards. So open. So beautiful. So peaceful.
Jory: Florence, Italy. The view from the cafe.

Bless You!
mazeway: Berchtesgaden, Germany

The hills are alive...
Nicole: Gimmelwald, high in the Swiss Alps. Green meadows, cows with big black bells, spectacular hiking, and the freshest air I've ever breathed. It made me understand why Sister Maria would run around singing.
Busy Mom: Switzerland

For auld lang syne
Jamie: We lived for two years on the south edge of Edinburgh, and that's the place that keeps coming to mind. Walking through our neighborhood I could see across the city, down to the Firth of Forth, and on clear days to the hills of Fife on the far side. My ethnic heritage is mostly Scottish, and it was lovely to live in the country my g'g'g'g'g'grandparents had called home.

Oh, great. Now everyone is going to hate me.
hadashi: oh geez, start with a tough one. thanks! either i answer with something like "the coast of South Africa" or "20 feet under the ocean off an island in Thailand" and people will groan at the show-offy nature of these answers, or i say "in my husband's arms right after he asked me to marry him" and people will groan because it's so cheeseball. way to sabotage me!

The Southwest
MoMMY: Sedona, Arizona
Jordana: The Grand Canyon
Erin: Big Bend National Park, Texas

I've seen London, I've seen France, I've seen...
EverydaySuperGoddess: I’ve been to London and Paris and seen some breathtakingly beautiful places, but when I’m sitting in the dentist’s chair or am otherwise feeling stressed, the place I always go in my mind is Lake Gogebic in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where my family’s cabin is. Especially on mid-summer afternoons when the sun is glinting off the water, that remains the most beautiful place in the world to me.
Margalit Topaz: This is a really hard question. I'm an inveterate traveler that has been all over the world. Some of the places that I think are incredibly beautiful wouldn't ring anyone else's bells, but I think they are gorgeous. Torcello, a small island outside of Venice, Italy would be one such spot. Another would be BlockIsland, off the coast of Rhode Island. And a third would be the Dalmation coast including Dubrovnik, in what was Yugoslavia and is now Croatia. But the most beautiful place I've ever been is my bedroom late at night.

Happy Birthday to You
Just Dawn: The hospital delivery room while each of my three children were born.
Susie Sunshine: That definitely would have been the magical land of total anesthesia, a place far far away from the stress and pain of labor gone wrong. As I started counting backwards from ten as instructed (confident that I would be the only person to ever make it down to zero and be asked to start over), I slipped inside the velvety gates of bliss, was handed an umbrella drink by a handsome cabana boy and stretched out on a silken lawnchair covered in mink and relaxed on the beach while doctors removed my first son from my innards.
Shortly after I met Mr. Morphine and he was quite lovely too.

The Pacific Northwest
Baseballmom: I would say Arcadia Beach in Oregon...very secluded and surrounded by rock formations, it's really peaceful.
Eulallia: Driving across the North Cascades highway in Washington State, there's a beautiful jade-colored lake called Lake Diablo. The highway winds up and around the lake, and there's a lookout point where you can stop and stand at the top of a cliff, overlooking the entire lake. You're out in the middle of the forest, so there are pine trees for miles, and rocky mountains jutting up all around you. Dropping off at your feet is a steep, rocky bank that is home to hundreds of chipmunks who scamper around looking for something to eat. The air is crisp and fresh, even in the summer, and the colors all seem brighter and more intense than anything you can see back in the city. Standing there looking at some of God's most beautiful creations, feeling the breeze blow through your hair and breathing in the clean, untainted smell of the wilderness... it's one of the most exhilarating and breathtaking moments you will ever experience.

I'll take Manhattan
Clickmom: Manhattan
Lauren: The Conservancy Garden at 105th and 5th in Manhattan's Central Park. The city was amazing and bustling, but this place was like a secret. It was so beautiful and hardly anyone was there. Fountains and overgrown trees against trimmed hedges with wisteria ready to bloom. After an afternoon there I couldn't help thinking that if I ever got married, I would want to have the ceremony there.

Did you get a photo with The Man in Red?
Colin: The most beautiful place I've ever been has to be Finland (Lapland) at Santa's Village during Christmas.

And yet, I don't like sushi
Jenny: I was blown away by the beauty in Hakone, Japan. All the ancient temples and lush green hills and waterfalls… spectacular.

Colorado, Colorado, I'll love ya, Colorado! You're only a state away!
Sabrina: We haven't been able to travel to any exotic vacation spots obviously because of 3 kids in tow but I'd say the Colorado Mountains (Pikes Peak) has been the best. The fresh air and view is awesome and hey it's only a state away!!
Melanie Lynne Hauser: Estes Park, Colorado - my version of heaven on earth!

Colorado! Or, okay... Iraq! But also Arizona and San Diego and Maryland.
Tonya: I’ve been to a lot of beautiful places. It is hard to pick one. Overall, I still like the Colorado Rocky Mountains the best. That is where I want to live whenever I come back to the States. Iraq in the winter, just after it rains and everything is all green has a stark kind of beauty to it. And you can’t beat a sunset in the Arizona Sonora Desert.
Sleepless Mama: This one is a three-way tie: the top of Pikes Peak in the Colorado Rockies (elevation 14,110 feet, but the nausea didn't kick in until the top 110); the San Diego coast, which was the most unusual thing I'd ever seen, what with the rock formations just jutting right up out of the water) and Rockville, MD, this past spring, when the snow was falling softly and covered all the trees and lawns. You just don't see those things growing up on the Texas coast.