Places Guthbrand Wants to Go

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

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

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Germany has its very own Centralia, whose spark remains attributed to "spontaneous combustion."

A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.

This proud Teutonic warrior rises out of a German forest heralding a victory and measuring lightning.

Amöneburg is a town perched on top of a basalt mountain in the middle of an ancient meteor crater.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.