Places Guthbrand Wants to Go

This museum located in Fondi is also said to be the most haunted building in town.

The medieval center of the Islamic world was also once the seat of Saladin's sultanate.

Standing atop 2nd-century Roman ruins, this church is one of the oldest and most iconic in Old Cairo.

The once great capital of Egypt now crumbles forward as evocative ruins.

Known as the Sistine Chapel of Egypt, this tomb houses some of the most well-preserved paintings in Egypt.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

Largest cave system in Africa.

Local lore says a serpent-like beast lurks in the deep basin below the falls.

Over a million items cram the shelves at Africa's largest shop of used and rare books.

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

This museum is a full-size replica of an original church constructed during the 13th-century.

The world's largest and most outstanding marl lake regularly changes color.

Legend has it this spring formed at the spot where a medieval Swedish king was killed.

A tiny town hall—in Sweden's one-time capital—might be the smallest in Europe.