Places Jonathann Gougnon Wants to Go

Liechtenstein's royal family calls this medieval alpine castle home.

The author of Frankenstein is buried here, along with her parents and the heart of her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

A massive maritime collision may have led to the myth of a resort island's strange financial status.

What once housed a private club catering to Comstock Lode elite is now considered one of the West’s most haunted spaces.

Dedicated to the "King of Soul."

Seven early Christians were sealed into a cave where legend has it they slept unharmed for centuries.

A pink sandstone column once used in ancient times to measure one's belly after a night of debauchery.

Eat the ultimate iteration of Portugal's most beloved pastry.

Sip cherry liqueur at a bar dating back to 1840.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

Buried nine feet under, these houses are preserved as a stark reminder of the disastrous 1991 Unzen eruption.

Modern museum, designed for Jihadi tourists.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

This observation tower is a longstanding, 1960s landmark in the Thousand Islands region of Canada.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

The longest staircase lock in Britain.

Designed to resemble foreign architecture, this mosque-looking structure was used to pump water to a royal fountain.

Sample sweets at an Art Nouveau candy shop that's been in business since 1874.

A public center dedicated to showcasing and conserving the enormous shaggy Poitou donkey.

One of Ayutthaya’s most iconic locations is a mysterious, hauntingly surreal miracle.

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.

Dating back to 1812, this is the oldest racecourse in the Southern Hemisphere.

Only two of these trees remain in the natural world, found high in the cloud forest of the island of Mauritius.

A volcanic crater that visitors can look inside.