Places jordank Wants to Go

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

A natural sandstone bridge hidden in the Sewanee forest.

A peculiar museum that includes many drunken tales, a drunk driving simulator, and much more.

A trompe-l'oeil statue honoring the first guide dog in North America.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

A smaller model of the Da Vinci sculpture that took 500 years to come to life.

The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.

For nearly 200 years the same family has harvested ice from a small pond in eastern Maine.

As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.

A restored historic movie theater is the perfect place for a regional film archive.

Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

Roadside tribute to a staple of eastern European cuisine.

This unique collection collects pieces of art etched into thin pieces of stone.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.