Places apojudy Wants to Go

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

An electrical pylon under whose legs a normal gauge train can run.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

Yup, that's a 330-foot yacht passing over the highway.

The Bloemen Route, or “Flower Route”, stretches 25 miles through prime Dutch tulip country as a result of “tulip mania,” the world’s first economic bubble.

“And the Lord said unto Johan, build for thee an ark for the end of the world is approaching.”

Rumored to have been frequented by Vincent van Gogh, it's the only remaining genever producer in the Hague.

The largest 19th century panorama in the world still in-situ.

A preserved building where the dead were once watched for signs of life.

Survival capsules find a second life as a unique hotel.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.