Places Ju An Wants to Go

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.

A crash site in the heart of polar bear territory has become a beloved local landmark.

This former Cold War missile control site played an important role in the creation of GPS.

The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

This lovely pocket park is one of the most under appreciated in D.C.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

One of the three perfect vellum copies of this historic book known to exist is on display in a specially-designed case.

"Congress may voluntarily remain in session throughout the summer, in order that our Congressmen may be protected from the intolerable discomforts and dangers of the ordinary outdoor weather!”

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

The walls of the iconic dome are hollow and have a secret stairway.

The only Leonardo Da Vinci painting in the Western Hemisphere.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

This harrowing climb along West Virginia's jagged spires is one of the only Via Ferrata on America's east coast.