Places Jonathann Gougnon Wants to Go

A painted medieval castle where the most celebrated outlaw-poet of the Middle Ages was imprisoned — and where you can descend into his exact cell, nine centuries later.

Resting place of the legendary Wing Chun grandmaster who taught Bruce Lee.

Early Islamic mosque with several strange conical domes.

In a quiet neighborhood in the south of Berlin is one of the most ambitious social housing experiments of the 20th century.

A modest Alabama recording studio where some of music’s biggest voices found their sound.

These four small islands contain unique hexagonal rock formations.

Site of the longest gun battle in FBI history.

In the summer of 1957, a massive architectural exhibition showed off the future of urban living in this German neighborhood.

Bizarre Hindu and Buddhist sculpture park.

A clerical error gave rise to this imaginary micronation in the southwestern corner of Estonia.

Ancient images hide within the park's caves.

It's been nearly a century since this volcano, the tallest mountain in Equatorial Guinea, erupted.

Some of the world’s most popular songs came out of this building.

A mad mystery man who led Canadian mounties on a 150-mile wilderness chase is still buried with his secrets intact.

The highest mountain in Hokkaido was the setting for one of Japan’s strangest unsolved mysteries.

More than 10,000 small mirrors cover the curved surface of the world's second-largest solar oven, located in a remote village in Uzbekistan.

The medieval town's star-shaped walls are geometrically dazzling, though not entirely impenetrable.

Forgotten forts that were pivotal in Singapore’s military history.

Over 70,000 prisoners were “transported” to a brutal life of forced labor in this French penal colony.

Along the banks of the Teltow Canal in southwestern Berlin stands one of the city’s most controversial buildings, a hulking Brutalist laboratory that looks more like a warship than a research facility.

A surprising and unconventional mosque hidden in the subsoil of Istanbul.

Europe’s only spaceport is in South America.

A cave that was home to humans 160 thousand years ago.

A remote area dotted with Buddhist temples and monasteries.