Places NickJConner Wants to Go

Visitors dip into a variety of pools of what was once ice.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

A record-breaking pool that uses computers to turn ocean water into cleaner, private swimming water.

The largest pool at its elevation sits on top of one of the most expensive resorts in the world.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

Deep in the Negev Desert, the world's tallest solar tower looks like a sight straight out of science fiction.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

An ancient quarry rediscovered by a dog and claimed by biblical kings, a German cult, and the Freemasons.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

East Nashville's oldest dive bar will bring you back to life with animal-style bar fare.

Everyone from Alan Ginsberg to The Rolling Stones has stopped by this classic dive bar.

It's a repurposed treasure trove of history, located just an hour away from Acadia National Park.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.