Places jordank Wants to Go

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.

Seventeen oak trees sprout from the roof and walls of this tiny chapel without any visual evidence of roots.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.

Myanmar's Mount Olympus atop a 2,500-foot volcanic plug.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

This Vietnamese hell cave lets visitors take a walk through a devilish underworld full of demons.

This mountain's identity is stuck somewhere between a nightmare and a scenic tourist attraction.

Discover the magic in the mundane in Iceland's Museum of Everyday Life.

A replica of the decorated wooden pillars Viking sailors threw overboard when finding new places to establish a settlement.

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.

The final resting place of the controversial chess champion.

This tiny cabin was home to one of Iceland's most famous painters and was the only land he ever owned.

A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.

One woman's lifelong collection is on display in this unassuming house on an Icelandic fjord.

A "simple-hearted artist" turned an isolated Icelandic valley into his own art museum.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

This elderly couple's hand-picked collection of rare gems is one of the finest in all of Iceland.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.