Places Wendy Jones Wants to Go

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

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

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.