Places jorkelyn Wants to Go

The location Geoffrey Chaucer and tale-telling pilgrims set off for Canterbury in April 1386.

This Irish museum in a historic 19th century market pays tribute to the glory of butter.

This amazing example of Valencian Art Nouveau looks more like a cathedral than a public market.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A collection of unique objects showcasing the university’s achievements in the medical field.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.