Places jordank Wants to Go

Britain's tallest megalith towers over the cemetery of a quiet English village.

The mosaic floor of a 4th-century synagogue features a pagan zodiac wheel alongside traditional images of a Torah ark and menorahs.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

The legend says that this English rock formation was once a hunter who was turned to stone by annoyed witches.

Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."

A mysterious crater-like pond has a spooky tendency to empty and fill with complete disregard to rainfall patterns.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.

A unique waterfall that some believe attracts the fairfolk.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

The only remaining Jewish congregation in Greenpoint.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Hundreds of thousands of ancient documents offer a unique glimpse into Jewish life in Cairo.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Holy Grotto of Montserrat Monastery holds one of Europe's mysterious black Madonnas.

Oldest building in California still in use.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.