Places NickJConner Wants to Go

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

At 32 feet long, this swing is big enough for the whole family—and then some.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

At this airport "microcinema," you can catch a film before you catch a flight.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

The busy transport hub is home to the tallest airport slide in the world.

A relatively obscure antihero from the Marvel Comics universe adorns a wall inside Iceland's main airport.

In a rural Japanese town that has committed to sustainable practices, even the hotel is made from recycled materials.

Row through this enchanted narrow chasm whose stones are said to resemble dragon scales.

You can still find treasures on the pebbly beaches of one of the world's oldest jade-producing areas.

These wondrously illuminated caverns extend under the mountains of the Fukushima Prefecture.

Forgotten forts that were pivotal in Singapore’s military history.

An abandoned Art Deco hotel nestled on the side of a wooded mountain.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This former quarry is now a picturesque gorge that hides a sunken lake.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This 14th century castle withstood years of battle but is now sliding off the hills into the Danube.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

A shrine of fire worship built on top of a natural flame.