Places janellegunther Wants to Go

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This once-majestic, now-abandoned Victorian castle has seen better days.

This impressive midden of scallop shells apparently all comes from a single fishing company.

This collection of Neolithic monuments make up one of The U.K.'s richest archeological landscapes.

One man’s collection of photography books has transformed into a charming exhibition space.

Destruction from Armenia's 1988 earthquake inspired an artist's sculptures of scrap metal.

This medieval manuscript collection has some of the most obscure and ancient texts in the world.

This little medieval church hidden in the center of Yerevan was lost and rediscovered—twice.

She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.

This series of Armenian caves held the oldest brain, shoe, and winery in the world.

A museum dedicated to traditional Armenian clothing and their designer.

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

Find regional specialties from the Thai-Laotian border inside in a North Hollywood swap meet's food court.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.

A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.