Places Jonathann Gougnon Wants to Go

A remote area dotted with Buddhist temples and monasteries.

Hidden 2600-year-old Urartian tomb is located in close proximity to a busy shopping mall.

A unique shopping and dining park created from old shipping containers and filled with local businesses.

One of the four sanctuaries of Rieti's Holy Valley was the site of the first living nativity scene.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

The Musée Albert-Kahn is a departmental museum in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, including four hectares of gardens, joining landscape scenes of various national traditions.

A subterranean necropolis blending Egyptian, Hellenic, and Roman traditions and art styles.

Art and concrete merge into a single entity within a WWII bunker that possesses a deeply storied and turbulent history.

Both an engineering feat and a monument to bad colonial politics.

Built in 1797, this is Mississippi’s most haunted house.

A carved figure embodying the palace’s pint-sized but protective spirit rooted in local folklore.

In a past life this steamboat hauled rubber and passengers up and down the Amazon.

One of the world’s only museums dedicated to the humble matchstick.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

The grave of the first dolphin to play Flipper is located at the Dolphin Research Center.

This 12th-century castle majestically overlooks the city and the beautiful Mosel River valley.

This immaculately preserved church from late antiquity was originally the mausoleum of the Emperor Constantine's daughter.

Originally a mission, what may be the oldest building on Maui is now a museum of the island’s history.

The hillside where Edvard Munch experienced the panic attack that inspired “The Scream” offers one of the most striking evening views in Oslo.

The most sacred Jewish shrine in Iran and a fine example of restoration works gone wrong.

A park that allows you to get up close and personal with one of the world's largest open volcanic craters.

The original home of the Caesar Salad.

A Scottish tycoon’s unfinished mansion is known as one of Malaysia’s most haunted buildings.

Giant aluminum tusks erected over the main thoroughfare to commemorate a visit by Queen Elizabeth II.