Places Ju An Wants to Go

The source of America's longest river is also a historical landmark and the start of a famous nude run.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

What looks like a link in Gondor's early warning system is actually a centuries-old Italian fortress.

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’ immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

This moss-covered, rocky outcropping looks like a mythical beast resting in the water.

In a strange timezone anomaly, Daylight Saving Time here sets the clocks forward just 30 minutes.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

This ruined fortress was the stronghold for a persecuted medieval leader and his infamous Assassins.

Foreign invaders almost left this lovely Caucasus palace alone—almost.

Fortified homes of highland warriors that are still in use today.

The highest point in Montana is as rugged and singular as the state itself.

This glass skywalk offers vertiginous views down the volcanic cliffs to the beach below.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

A jagged silhouette of shamanistic stone heaps rises from the shore of this dazzling mile-high lake.

An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.

A hike outside of the town of Zuun Mod will take visitors to a monastery complex steeped in Mongolian history.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

The wreckage of a deadly bomber plane crash can still be found near an Arizona peak.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.