Places Guthbrand Wants to Go

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

On a small Slovenian island, diners can mix and match a classic cake into dozens of sweet and savory flavor combinations.

A haven for book enthusiasts across the street from Retiro Park.

Hidden in plain sight, a gravestone seemingly inscribed from the future stands among the cemetery’s historic tombs.

A coastal French town said to have been visited by Jesus' disciples is a major pilgrimage center for Catholic Romanis.

One of the oldest universities in the world exhibits thousands of specimens from its 700-year-old collection.

Surrounded by natural bridges, this picturesque waterfall drops hundreds of feet into an underground cave.

A single column facing the sea is all that's left of one of the most important temples of Magna Graecia.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

An unassuming museum offers a deep dive into everything about mushrooms, from cultivation innovations to fungi that "talk."

“Ireland’s only inland lighthouse” is not actually a lighthouse at all.

A medieval shrine set into a towering canyon wall.

Where two rivers meet—but don’t mix.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This U.S. natural reserve is an ancient spiritual place and rock climber’s paradise.

Get your meal delivered via pneumatic at this former post office.

A Christian pilgrimage site that may have also been a temple for the Greek goddess of love.

Two of Manchester’s oldest buildings were moved twice.

A Victorian synagogue-turned-museum chronicles centuries of Jewish life.

These ancient ruins include a stadium dating back to 400 BC.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

A striking church with a Tolkien-inspired nickname.