Places Guthbrand Wants to Go

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

This medieval cathedral houses stained-glass windows featuring saints and pretzels.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

A 14th century castle built on the seat of a mighty giant.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

This 21st century cabinet of curiosities includes dinosaur bones, moon rocks, film memorabilia, and more.

This vast, pristine wilderness is home to a rare subspecies of black bear.

One of the world's oldest trees comes with a Welsh legend intertwining it with a spirit prophesying death.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A rescue facility that caters specifically to wolf-dog hybrids, and educates about these unique animals.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A magnificent collection of imperial armor and weaponry.

A statue of the early navigator stands overlooking the land he first surveyed.

An old drug store full of mortars and pestles, pill-making machines, and medicines reputed to cure most any illness.

A forlorn fishing village on the coast of Labrador, full of shipwrecks and Spanish gold.