Places Jen Seriously Wants to Go

This isolated island is often capped by its own fluffy cloud.

This mysterious, medieval cathedral remains unbuilt but fiercely protected.

Despite finally receiving electricity in 1970, this tiny town is now deserted.

The narrow passages will challenge even the bravest driver.

Two massive boulders, rocking back and forth with the ebbing of the sea.

This isolated and westernmost point of the Faroe Islands archipelago is home to thousands of seabirds.

The abandoned village of Skarð aptly illustrates the idiom "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

When this former hospital pharmacy closed in 2013 it already looked like a museum, so they turned it into one.

A small Portuguese cottage formed between boulders in the countryside.

A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

A strange sandstone formation in the middle of nowhere presents an interesting climbing opportunity.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

This old ruin once served as a post office, a train station, a restaurant, and a bridge to the Atomic Age.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

A monument dedicated to a local softball team full of clowns.

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

A 6,888-carat piece of turquoise that bears a striking resemblance to the first President of the United States.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.