Places Jonathann Gougnon Wants to Go

The tallest minaret in Yemen is 150 feet high and entirely made of mud.

A nearly abandoned Jewish settlement perched atop a hill in the heart of Yemen.

This 13th-century UNESCO-listed "lion's house" mosque is named after a repurposed lion sculpture.

At the edge of a town market is the gravesite of a powerful female war chief.

A former royal garden with lush surroundings in the heart of the city.

Cages that once displayed the bodies of executed leaders hang from a German church tower.

One of America's oldest continuously operating hotels offers a blend of rich history and historic architecture in the heart of Annapolis.

Iguanas roam in a lagoon inside a volcanic crater that erupted more than 2200 years ago.

Sprawling archeological site of an 8th-century Islamic castle.

The quiet resting place of a rock and roll legend.

This museum shaped like a manuscript tells how the seven kingdoms combined to form a single desert nation.

St. Peter’s, in Western Germany, has stood as a masterpiece of Romanesque architecture since 1181.

A rugged hike leads to a breathtaking waterfall, once thought to be the tallest in Iceland.

A million years ago, our ancient ancestors were cooking with fire in this cave.

These giant volcanic rocks towering above the Angolan savannah once served as a natural fortification.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

The highest concentration of Art Deco buildings in the world.

The final resting place of a music legend.

Sweden’s legendary mine with wildly deep tunnels.

Once a thriving Greek port, now a windswept ruin lost to time.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

This Art-Deco-styled, former indoor public bath is now a museum.

Building this tragically pointless stone barrier cost the lives of the prisoners made to build it.

Only reachable by boat, a small Tanzanian national park is home to the chimpanzees that Jane Goodall spent her career studying.