Places janepeytonjohnson Wants to Go

Eurasia's most difficult place to hang out, and farthest point from sea access.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

The Incredible Hulk, Yoda, Mulder and Scully, and many many others watch over the mean streets of Toronto.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

A magical work of architecture where a wind turbine enables monks to levitate.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

A long-disputed lighthouse built on the wrong side of a Finnish/Swedish island.

A long-disputed island that Denmark and Canada claim by periodically alternating flags and bottles of liquor.

This striking icon of the disputed Republic of Artsakh caused a stir at a Eurovision Song Contest.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

Along a rail-biking route, giant insects house a two-story restaurant.

A working ranch doubles as a sustainable hub for world-renowned classical music and large-scale sculptures.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.