Places Jason C Wants to Go

This genuine, blood red Jolly Roger was captured off the North African coast in 1790 by Admiral Richard Curry.

An inverted staircase above the entrance to the Bethnal Green Underground Station functions as a memorial for people who lost their lives during the worst civilian disaster in the U.K. during World War II.

This statue in Holland Park might be one of London’s oldest outdoor statues, but its exact origins are unknown.

The ruins of a medieval monastery built on a perilous slope.

The world's longest nonstop reversible cable car soars through spectacular scenery to the medieval Tatev Monastery.

This ancient monastery complex was transformed from an island to a peninsula when the lake was partially drained.

excavated small Roman castle in the woods close to Pohlheim

A lookout built from shipping containers with a rare view into the harbor’s busy machinery.

Kloster Eberbach is one of Europe’s best-preserved medieval Cistercian monasteries, founded in 1136 and renowned for its austere Romanesque architecture and historic wine cellars.

A forest outside Darmstadt becomes an open-air art gallery, where international artists turn trees, branches, stones, and clearings into strange, playful, and thought-provoking works.

Finland's oldest astronomical observatory once played a crucial role in seafaring and timekeeping.

This church also serves as a lighthouse complete with a beacon.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

Richly carved, brightly painted doors that turned small fishing villages into open-air showcases

Memorial for the woman who invented the coffee filter

The purported midpoint in London from which all distances are measured has a tragic love story at its core

The ruins of a once-mighty medieval palace are hidden away in otherwise modern London

Intricate 14th-century floor tiles hidden underfoot in Winchester Cathedral

A lone medieval church tower marooned among the City of London's skyscrapers

Earth's rocky history has rarely glittered so brightly as it does in this Spanish museum.

An automaton perched above an classic clock and watch store

Known as the Casa de las Siete Chimeneas, this haunted 16th-century manor has a dark, mysterious past.

Hidden under a center for the elderly are the dungeons which were used during the Spanish Inquisition.