Places JonAkzar Wants to Go

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.

This aromatherapy shop and mini-museum cofounded by the Sigur Rós frontman documents Icelandic history through scents.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

An incredibly well-preserved barbershop from the 1920s was transformed into a tiny local museum.

Few people have ever heard of, let alone visited, one of Turkmenistan’s most impressive natural attractions.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

Longest road tunnel in the world features an air treatment plant and the illusion of daylight.

A thin pane of glass keeps visitors from sliding off this futuristic skywalk.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.