Places johnsongeographic Wants to Go

Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.

Iconic pyramid from famed British architect Norman Foster designed to represent all of the world's religious faiths.

Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered.

Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

Devastated landscape used for hundreds of years by the Romans as their primary mining site.

Prehistoric park filled with the fossils of dozens of extinct species including Australian megafauna.

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

White llama terraces dazzle in Peru's "other Machu Picchu."

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.

Small church on top of a huge rock column.

Record-holding coffin moonlights as an eatery run by undertakers.

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.