Places Ju An Wants to Go

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

Surrounded by natural bridges, this picturesque waterfall drops hundreds of feet into an underground cave.

This wooden home was built in West Virginia by a Scottish immigrant before being moved to an Israeli winery.

A magical oasis in the middle of the Negev Desert.

Israel's premiere solar energy research facility provides energy to nomads.

The remains of this ancient fortress atop a manmade hill look as though they were built into a volcano.

This historic pink parlor keeps Phoenicians cool with homemade, retro ice creams.

The wilderness of northern Sweden is full of shelters to protect people from sounding rockets returning from space.

A former top secret military tunnel is now stuffed with snow and open year-round to skiers.

Hidden behind mountains in Morocco, a remote town hides a thriving surfing community.

Reaching this rock formation involves a hike through rocky rapids and springs where wild turtles reproduce.

A five-square-mile slice of Spain on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.

This former cathedral is now a bustling library packed with students and pigeons.

A century-old stone hermitage overlooks this remote pass in the Hoggar mountains, surrounded by a landscape of eroded volcanic cores.

A quarter mile off the coastal tip of Maine you'll find the "Beloved Island" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

A working ranch doubles as a sustainable hub for world-renowned classical music and large-scale sculptures.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

This remote Colorado canyon is home to the second-largest collection of natural arches in the world.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.