Places jordank Wants to Go

This beautiful 150-year-old synagogue survived Italy's fascist period and the Second World War.

Hungarian Jews were ghettoized during the Second World War, but little remains of the original wall that closed the Jewish people off from the rest of the city.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

A map store filled with original Cold War era Russian maps of the world.

A monument to the grand synagogue that stood in this space before Nazis burned it down.

This spectrum of a star was observed by one of the world's most accurate spectrographs. 

A memorial commemorating the place where Truman gave the order to deploy the first nuclear bombs on Japan.

The home of president Truman during the Potsdam Conference, and the place from which the atomic bomb strike on Japan was triggered.

A grand mansion in rural mid-Wales gifted to the Welsh people by two sisters.

A helicopter memorial commemorating what was once the only way to access this West Berlin exclave.

A 20th-century naval quarantine center is now a local park.

Every winter, this former planetarium is transformed into a massive, brightly-lit Christmas ornament.

An awe-inspiring giant blue whale jaw bone stands in the center of this Dutch island.

Live out your childhood construction fantasies in this one-of-a-kind gyrating hotel.

Pull up and have a drink at a museum filled with hundreds of years' worth of shipwreck artifacts.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.

An unsettling sculpture of a boy hanging out in a street in Ghent has been baffling visitors for years.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.

A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

This small window display is dedicated to the noble carrot.

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.