Places Guthbrand Wants to Go

This 11th-century Cistercian abbey was once seized by Henry VIII.

Once a thriving Greek port, now a windswept ruin lost to time.

This mysterious eye has a debated purpose.

The wooden sculptures are studded throughout a small New Zealand town.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

The oldest Egyptian obelisk still standing in its original site.

This village in the northeast of France is packed with book shops.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

A historic pub with traditional Irish cuisine, fine drinks, and a paranormal past.

Austria’s oldest brewery makes beer with flaming-hot granite.

Interactive museum complete with costumed re-enactors and the only known surviving chest from the Boston Tea Party.

Fried artichokes and other Roman–Jewish classics are executed with care at this no-frills cafeteria.

An underground museum of monks, bones, and medieval ruins.

Since 1999, this gelateria founded by a string instrument maker has been turning out some of Rome’s best scoops.

For more than a century, this hole-in-the-wall near Termini Station has been serving what some say is the greatest porchetta sandwich.

This medieval synagogue survived the Inquisition as a hospital and church.

Crispy, cheesy rice balls—the Roman answer to arancini—take center stage here.

The other, lesser-known, Sistine Chapel, sits over 500km away from the Vatican City in an Italian port City.

Royal burial place of the kings of ancient Britain.

Legend says the water within these mysterious sacred springs stays cold even when boiled.

A holy well believed to have healing powers.

A mysterious churchyard stone with a peculiar hole was once used to seal market transactions.

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

A neo-gothic statue modeled on German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II, which had its distinctive mustache shaved off by Nazis in World War II.