Places jorkelyn Wants to Go

This was once a hall in which a 16th-century royal banquet was hosted by King James VI of Scotland.

This painting of a beloved dog will be on display at the Scottish National Gallery at long as the museum exists.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

Bioluminescence in the reefs of the Maldives causes the sea to glow like a starry night sky.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

This intricately spiralling forest was created as a monumental work of art.

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

These murals stand as reminders to the troubled history of this Northern Ireland city.

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era “champions.”

Where the legendary wizard sleeps for eternity, according to Arthurian lore.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

The ground on which Shakespeare’s initial playhouse once stood.

A haunting medieval cloister that once served as the friars’ burial ground.

The luxurious English estate houses the world’s largest private collection of French Rothschild wines.

Experience the glamour of vintage rail travel as you journey through the historic Secret Valley. 

These rural ruins are of a Midwestern hotel that was once an elegant spa for the wealthy, then a gangster’s hideaway, and finally a haunted retreat.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.