Places JKPDX Wants to Go

This remote desert watering hole has a connection to a curious chapter of American history.

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

Locals affectionately dubbed this World War I memorial "Tommy."

This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

A winding medieval path was used by mourners to carry their dead to the nearest church.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

A spiritual sanctuary in a natural cave.

This tiny movie theater was the last one in the U.S. constructed in the Nuevo Deco architectural style.

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

A hidden workshop for creating and restoring Papal mosaic masterpieces.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

All aboard the world's longest miniature railway.

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.