Places Guthbrand Wants to Go

This uber-quaint Polish village is known for its habit of painting elaborate floral motifs on just about everything.

A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

The medieval "dragon" on an Austrian city's coat-of-arms comes to life in a fountain.

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

Devilish masks, handicrafts, and pieces of old buildings create a snapshot of life in a historic Alpine region.

This splendid tomb may look fantastic, but there's nothing in it...

A three-shelf library serves as a memorial in the Jewish cemetery of Krems.

The world's largest historic armory was established by independent citizens to defend themselves from the wars of larger forces.

Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.

The largest ice cave in the world is thought to be the entrance to hell according to Austrian legend.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

This ossuary is more than five centuries old and is heralded as one of the finest in Switzerland.

The idyllic island where the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent “the happiest time of his life.”

Abbey built on the ruins of Roman catacombs.

A constellation of golden cobblestones shows the names of local children born under a full moon.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

An 11th-century fortress home to one of the most influential royal houses in medieval Europe.