Places Jes Wants to Go

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

Menacing or in memoriam, the Silent People and their meaning are left to interpretation.

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

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

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

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.

A trio of hidden hot tubs takes advantage of Iceland's natural geothermal vents.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.

A vintage video game wonderland in downtown Reykjavik.

The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

Two volcanic lakes in an enormous crater formed in a prehistoric eruption.

This tumultuous Icelandic lava field looks so alien European researchers want to use it as a stand-in for Mars.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.