Places Guthbrand Wants to Go

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

An iconic view point of the Sea of Galilee offers a look into Israel's past.

Nestled in a peaceful valley, this Armenian monastery may have been saved from Mongols thanks to the eyes of God.

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

This ancient monastery complex was transformed from an island to a peninsula when the lake was partially drained.

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.

Right up until the 20th century this network of man-made caves was the biggest village in Eastern Armenia.

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.

Called the "Armenian Stonehenge," this ring of menhirs pierced with holes may be a prehistoric astronomical observatory.

The ruins of a medieval monastery built on a perilous slope.

You can crawl inside this atmospheric 5,000-year-old tomb.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

One of England's oldest stone churches and the birthplace of the "father of English history."

The largest prehistoric cemetery on the Balearic Islands dates back over 2,500 years.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

A historic Christian shrine nestled within a spectacular natural cave.

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.