Places jordank Wants to Go

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

A rare museum dedicated to a rather overlooked material in the history of fashion.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

A 200-year-old tavern challenges guests to finish a glass of wine while hanging from a ceiling beam.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

Inside this church is an obscure piece of art carved by the famous Alice Liddell.

You can see three Irish counties from this Neolithic hillside fort, once the seat of the Kingdom of Ailech.

A Viking-style brewpub named for a Norse sea giant, in the heart of fjord country.

For nearly 50 years this airplane that crashed during World War II remained missing in the remote Australian backcountry.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

This large boulder was used as a lookout point by Revolutionary War militiamen.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

This classic steam-powered train takes tourists on a nostalgic trip around the Connecticut River Valley.

This museum holds a fully-functional replica of the "Turtle," the first American submarine ever built.

The idyllic colonial home of the artist behind the famous portraits of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

The mosaic Star of David at the front of this store hints that it's no ordinary Italian grocer.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

An enormous overgrown greenhouse teeming with graffiti and wildlife.

A meandering boardwalk across the bogland leads to a "stairway to heaven" with sublime views.