Places Jason C Wants to Go

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

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

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

A luxury hotel housed in a former 15th century Gothic church.

This historical Netherlands fortress still bears the marks of its single siege.

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

The secular incarnation of a religious meditation.

This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.