Places jordank Wants to Go

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

This ancient bridge made of stone slabs is said to be reserved for the devil to sunbathe.

A site of pagan worship which still attracts people looking for fairies.

The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

It's possible to walk inside one of the largest Neolithic tombs in Britain.

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.

It is said a heartbroken man visited the gap every day to stare blankly out at the sea.

Local legend says there's treasure hidden within its crowded graveyard.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

Hidden in a Scotland museum is a copse of extinct tree stumps.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

Legend says this cave housed a 16th-century cannibal and his family of 48.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

A historic cave in Scotland once served as a hiding place for a famous Covenanter.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

Hidden out of public view in the National Library of Israel is a collection of "Stalag's," 1960s Nazi themed porno paperbacks written and consumed by Israelis.

On holy holidays, Israel's second president used this room atop Mount Zion as a refuge to read the Torah.

The world's oldest Jewish library was founded by Sephardic Jews in 17th century Amsterdam.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A historic hill of tall tales, with one rather special tree.