Places jordank Wants to Go

WWII artifacts, including the building itself.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

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

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

A disastrous D-Day rehearsal was relatively unknown until this sunken tank was discovered 40 years later.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

This picturesque archeological site looks like it was pulled straight from a fantasy novel.

One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

This tiny island is home to the world's largest colony of Northern gannets.

The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

The small Scottish townhouse where the "Father of the National Parks" was born.

These tenacious 14th-century towers defied demolition and are now a fairytale vacation rental.

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.