Yes, there are things that travel faster than light, but there is no matter or energy or information involved. For example, if you point your scissors at the sky and open them quickly, the mathematical points that lie along the lines formed by the jaws of the scissors travel faster than light at a distance of several million miles from the scissor.
The expansion of the universe caused the separations between galaxies to increase hundreds of times the speed of light when the universe was only seconds old.
There are blobs of matter ejected by certain quasars that seem to travel 8 - 10 times the speed of light when you divide the distance they travel by the interval of time between successive radio photographs of where they are located.
Each of these instances does not violate special relativity for different reasons. In the first instance, the mathematical tips of the opening scissors are free to travel at any speed they want because no information, matter or energy is involved.
In the case of the universe expanding, special relativity does not apply because we have to use general relativity. Have a look at my answers to various question about the expansion of space in my Cosmology FAQs. The point is that space itself is not a thing made of matter or energy so the separations between galaxies are free to increase via space expansion at any speed at all. The galaxies themselves never travel across this space.
For the faster than light quasar motion, this is accounted for by special relativity because what we think we are computing is not a proper velocity at all. Special relativity predicts that for bodies separating at close to the speed of light, 0.95c, you will observe them to be traveling faster than light because of the way the light signals are being received by us and the way in which we are interpreting them to get a measure of speed. We normally measure speed by dividing a distance by a time interval, but this only makes sense if the measurements are made with respect to the same meter stick and the same clock at rest with respect to us. For the quasar this is not the case.
To see what is happening consider the case of the rocket moving away from the Earth near the velocity of light. It travels from here to the Moon in 3 seconds as judged by Earth-bound observers, but in terms of the clock on board the rocket, perhaps only 0.1 second has elapsed. Is the velocity equal to the Earth-Moon distance divided by 3 seconds or by 0.1 second? The answer is its the Earth-Moon distance divided by 3 seconds. This is because the Earth-Moon distance and 3 seconds were both measured by the same people in the same frame of reference on the Earth and so are consistent or 'proper' numbers. Dividing the Earth-Moon distance measured by the Earth-bound astronomers by the flight time measured by the astronauts on the rocket is 'improper' because the time was measured in one reference frame, and the distance in another. If the astronauts had also measured the Earth-Moon distance in their own frame, they would find because of the length contraction effect that it was shorter than what the Earth-bound astronomers measure, and the ratio of the astronauts distance and time would then give them the proper speed of their rocket. This speed would equal the speed measured by the Earth-bound astronomers for the rocket.
There is no physical way to use the 'improper' velocity of a phenomenon to communicate energy, matter or information between points in space at a speed faster than light. If you can figure out how to use the faster than light motion of the mathematical tips of a scissor at a distance of 1 million miles, to do anything useful in a physical sense, let me know!