Places Ju An Wants to Go

An old church full of restored Catholic statues is a makeup artist's labor of love.

This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

This unusual three-way wooden foot bridge spans two rivers at once.

This monument commemorates the only American soldiers to have directly fought Russians during World War I.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

A former Canadian automobile ferry mysteriously appeared in the Black River 20 years ago, and now it quietly rusts away.

One of the largest collections of holy relics in the country.

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

Turn around and stick your head between your legs for the best view of this tree-covered sandbar.

This crescent-shaped sliver of sand is a magical haven for a herd of feral horses.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.

A statue of the early navigator stands overlooking the land he first surveyed.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

In Bermuda, this formal naval residence has become a go-to for cliff-jumpers and hikers.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

The world's smallest drawbridge.

Nuclear waste experts study this prehistoric crater lake to envision landscapes one million years in the future.

One of the world's most unusual events combines headbanging and needlework.

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

The sole surviving building from Newgate village, a colonial settlement that was renamed Centreville in 1792 after it was granted town status by the Virginia Assembly.