Places jordank Wants to Go

A sixth-century Byzantine cistern hidden below a modern carpet store.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

Roman ruins, natural methane fires and a lovely beach.

Turkish adventurer antiques in the heart of the Grand Bazaar.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

This beautiful train graveyard is one of the largest collections of steam locomotives in the Mediterranean and Europe.

A spectacular disused railway viaduct in a beautiful countryside nature reserve.

This secluded walking trail is a hidden gem of a Pittsburgh park.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

This 1,700-pound edible sculpture is way better than your average chocolate mousse.

Its unique collection details the history of the state's svelte railroads.

A rare rune stone dedicated to a woman.

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

This East End pub gained notoriety as the site where gangster Ronnie Kray publicly shot a rival.

Over a decade ago, painted penguins mysteriously appeared around Berwick-upon-Tweed for no apparent reason.

A gallery specifically dedicated to the botanical illustrations of a remarkable traveling lady.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

Once home to a Scottish baronet, this 18th-century historic house doubles as a legendary art space.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

This allegedly haunted 16th-century tower house-turned-museum exhibits thousands of spectacular objects.