Places jordank Wants to Go

This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

An ornate "graveyard" for some of the country's forlorn building relics.

Connecticut sites linked to the only trial to ever use demonic possession as a criminal defense.

These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

This "thrice-cursed" island is allegedly home to Captain Kidd's lost treasure.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.