Places Jonathann Gougnon Wants to Go

Built in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, this cathedral is one of the finest examples of Sicilian Baroque architecture.

Michelangelo's first known painting went unnoticed for over 500 years

Built on the side of a mountain, this once poor village has been turned into the "Santorini of Korea"

A statue dedicated to football's first African superstar and Portugal's greatest ever player

Holy relic of a girl in communion attire inside the cathedral of Guadalajara

Limestone caves in the side of a hill associated with legends and the supernatural

A mysterious, almost perfectly circular floating island gyrating inside a likewise circular lake

The largest rainforest in southern Africa was only discovered by conservationists thanks to Google Earth

This popular shopping mall and eatery once provided scant comfort to sick colonials and seafarers

This is the real-life “Phantom of the Opera” box from Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel.

Formula 1 legend Ayrton Senna is buried under a flowing tree in the middle of São Paulo surrounded by the city he loves.

Unique massive sculpture on a mound at a public park just outside of Paris.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.

This street was the filming location of the iconic flying bicycle scene from “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.”

David Robert Jones was a Berliner — from 1976–1978

The peace and seclusion of Kyoto’s “Moss Temple” is no accident.

These crypt figures are said to be the giant and his family, turned to stone mid-rampage

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

Site of James Cook's historic observations of the 1769 transit of Venus.

Two hand-built octagonal smoke saunas open every Friday on the grounds of a former wartime headquarters, within a UNESCO Global Geopark, in one of Finland’s least-visited corners.

This iconic building , which is very evocative of the county of Cheshire, is a genuine gem of Tudor, black and white, timber-framed architecture .

This traditionally British fish and chip shop is one of the few that still cooks its products in a coal-fired range.

The prehistoric home of an enormous ground sloth that once roamed Patagonia