Places NickJConner Wants to Go

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.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

Double spiral staircases are not unheard of, but they are very rare.

Climb this overlooked gem's spiral staircase and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views of Glasgow.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

A lavish 16th-century mansion filled with spectacular staircases, fantastic frescoes, and gorgeous gardens.

This high-design church is made up of two dizzying spirals meant to evoke the weaving together of marriage.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

A tragic legacy of the attempt to beautify Skopje and line the pockets of corrupt politicians

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.

At high tide, the base of the lighthouse covers practically every inch of the island.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

This lonely cast-iron structure is the only wave-washed lighthouse of its kind left in all of Britain.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.