I did both my hometown (Lafayette, IN) and my birthplace (Watkins Glen, NY)..... Watkins Glen is pretty boring... like 2,000 people. Pretty much the highlight is the Watkins Glen Road Course... I've been there to watch it about 10 times and it's the most boring race you'll ever watch.

As for Lafayette? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette%2C_Indiana

Home of Purdue University. The 6th best Engineering school in the US, the 2nd best Agricultural school, and 5th best Pharmacy school in the US. Ranks 75th world wide. The University of choice by many many astronauts as well as Amelia Earhart. Lafayette was the site of the US's first airmail delivery point. Lafayette of course, is home of Axel (William Bruce Rose, Jr.) and Izzy Stradlin of Guns N Roses. As well as the wife of Melissa Ethridge ( I thought that was funny). Charleton Heston, Shannon Hoon (lead singer of Blind Melon, RIP), Sydney Pollack, Brian Lamb (Founder of C-Span), Alvan C. Roebuck (Sears Roebuck), and Daniel X Freedman (biological psychiatrist who discovered the link between hallucinogens and brain transmitters) all once called Lafayette home....

Other than that there's not much special about it.