Places butterflywings Wants to Go

This European portal tomb has a capstone that weighs around 150 tons.

This Bronze Age tomb is the centerpiece of a clearing within a beautiful Irish forest.

A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

This museum dedicated to divination also honors a local 10th-century prophetess.

This hobbit-y little hot spring may be the oldest spring used by humans in all of Iceland.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

These large stone piles are ancient burial sites.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

This wonky bit of historical taxidermy is experiencing a second life online.

This collection of 80 polarizing foods aims to challenge your subjective notions of repulsion.

This Danish rock field is actually a sprawling ancient cemetery holding the bodies of 700 Vikings.

In legend, this ancient dolmen was said to have been created when a troll tried to destroy a church.

A centuries-old lookout post still sits atop a natural stone spire.

A Zoroastrian funerary tower where excarnation rituals are carried out is threatened by the area's dwindling vulture population.

This striking landscape in northern Vietnam contains both geological and archaeological wonders.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.