Places Jess Wants to Go

A 1930s-style speakeasy with a secret doorway and one-of-a-kind cocktails.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms.

A dad joke was inevitable when a member of this 19th-century chocolatier family married the president of France.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

An underground tropical garden sits inside a Paris Métro Station.

This 329-acre nature park is Lake Washington's largest remaining wetland ecosystem.

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

A massive environmental project transformed this former smelter into a beautiful park.

Slip in a slide while waiting for the ferry.

Tacoma's historic Beaux-Arts train station is now a federal courthouse featuring large-scale glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly.

This site was a school and a center of Japanese-American life before internment.

In addition to what was once the world’s largest single-loom carpet, this charming space contains a pair of unique flags in American history.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

In the midst of a residential town in Washington exists a property saturated with one man's artistic creations.

A tribute to the Nirvana frontman hides beneath the bridge that was the singer's beloved hangout spot.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America.