Places Jonathann Gougnon Wants to Go

This Chinatown hole-in-the-wall serves what might be the ultimate oyster omelet.

The porky tom yum soup at this Sukhumvit Road institution has a cult following.

The house where Robert E. Lee planned the Battle of Antietam is said to be haunted by the ghost of a Civil War soldier.

The 700-year old burial mounds of the Ahom Kingdom.

A memorial to the most decisive Native American victory of the Plains Indian War.

A garden in the middle of the most inhospitable continent.

Soak in the life’s work of one of the country’s foremost modern artists.

Hundreds of large Russian nesting dolls decorate this square, and the largest is a functioning hotel.

Remote, beautiful, and stigmatized, Las Hurdes is Spain's version of Appalachia.

You can receive a blessing for your electronics at this Shinto shrine near Akihabara.

A historic area for shopping and dining in Ketchikan's former red-light district.

Jack White's record store is the only place in the world that records live shows direct-to-acetate.

The real Buddhist temple where the fictional Kwai Chang Kaine (David Carradine) trained in TV's 'Kung Fu' series.

Here lies Zona, whose ghostly testimony led to her husband’s murder conviction.

The oldest hotel in West Virginia is reportedly frequented by ghosts.

One of the world's largest pyramids stands within El Mirador, the "lost city of the Maya."

Twenty-four works by the last great Mexican muralist tell the story of Tlaxcala.

A petroleum heritage museum on the site where James Miller Williams dug the first commercial oil well on the continent in 1858.

This old-fashioned confectionary has been family owned and operated for more than a century.

Resonant stone, that has been played since prehistoric times.

This free sculpture garden is home to over 90 artworks and installations from artists around the world.

This museum is also an active archeological site at the eastern end of Lake Neuchâtel.

A surreal abandoned mining site near West Africa’s tallest mountain.

Supplies are schlepped up by llamas at this century-old inn, accessible only by hiking trails in the Great Smokies.