Places Jessica Leigh Hester Wants to Go

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

A watercolor recreation of a famous fresco unearthed at Pompeii.

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.

One of the most well-preserved mammoth specimens in the world.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

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

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

A collection of over 2000 air-moving devices of all kinds displayed in the Fanimation headquarters.

Display that gathers the basic elements of the universe in one convenient location.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.