Places jordank Wants to Go

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

Despite the name, this narrow bridge isn't very dangerous at all.

This storybook New England home is actually a decommissioned lighthouse.

A railroad magnate's replica village has become home to a genetic seed bank for rare breeds of livestock.

The stone walls of a home built to withstand a California wildfire still stand after more than a century.

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

Fluffy and friendly alpacas nestled against the border of the beautiful Connemara region.

The remains of a majestic house that was once stood in the crosshairs of the Irish Republican Army.

A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

Ruins battered by centuries of war and disaster offer a wondrous glimpse of medieval Ireland.

Modern sundial uses ancient methods to tell time and date perfectly.

Railroad officials in the early 1900s sought to spare travelers the sight of Roman soldiers’ private parts.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

Sit where JFK proposed to Jackie or where Nixon dined on meatloaf at this storied pub.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

A tiny village in Upstate New York ushered in the precursor to drive-in movies.

An actual piece of the Moon, brought down to Earth by Apollo 15.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

A portrait of the Charter Oak hangs in a frame made from the Charter Oak.