Places Guthbrand Wants to Go

A stone in a Victorian writer’s garden is a remnant of prehistoric Britain.

Historic beer hall in Bucharest with magnificent stained glass and a lively folk band.

Buried beneath an unassuming Gotland farm was the largest collection of Viking silver, mostly of Islamic origin.

No one is sure if the world's fourth-largest diamond had been found in a rubbish heap or was pawned by Napoleon's mom.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

These unique and ever-changing caves are a wonder of Iceland.

The devil-defying mark left by a saint as a boy is visible inside Lisbon's cathedral.

Inside this art and oddity-filled shop, a small room filled with secrets.

This amazing example of Valencian Art Nouveau looks more like a cathedral than a public market.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

This historic vessel on display in Massachusetts made a dozen scientific expeditions into the Arctic.

Amid the ruins of a church on the British island of Portland, a surprising symbol among the headstones.

A massive marble pedestal is all that remains of a column that towered over Constantinople for 1300 years.

Hidden tunnels have sheltered the people of a Czech town for centuries.

This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

An unusual sand beach in the middle of a forest.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

The world's longest known cave system.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."