Places NickJConner Wants to Go

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

The longest pedestrian tunnel in the world.

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

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

"The country that ate itself."

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

According to the locals, the sands of this secluded Norway beach are infused with gemstone particles.

A favorite with sightseers and locals alike, this Norwegian funicular provides easy access to a stunning view of Bergen and its environs.

Commemorating the story of how a small Norwegian village escaped destruction during World War II.

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

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

Hanging over one of Japan’s “hidden valleys,” these vine bridges must be remade every three years.

Walk through a well-preserved World War II Nazi prison and transit camp.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

1960s modernist architecture in the form of a church and monastery at the foothills of the Andes.

A seven-story circular concrete tower, once the heart of Ferrara’s Eridania distillery, resembles a modern industrial Colosseum.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.