this might be able to help some folks figure out where to visit: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identifriday-is-the-happiest-day-of-the-week/26908/1631.
my personal view is that visiting some far and distant place occasionally is fine, but it’s often so much more meaningful to explore locally, and in the grand scheme of things, i wish more folks would develop a deep understanding of their own places and become ambassadors for their own places.
when visiting a faraway place, i find it most satisying to see a mix of things i recognize and things i’ve never seen before (rather than visiting some place where everything is completely different). i think that’s most helpful for me to make connections in my brain. so i think that could translate to things like visiting places of similar lattitude or similar climate, visiting the spring habitat of a winter migrant visitor, etc.
and there are lots of ways to discover new things in the same place – visiting at different times of day, different times of the year, during (or before / after) different weather, etc.; visiting with dfferent tools; visiting with different people who have different perspectives, etc…