Places Guthbrand Wants to Go

Sip heritage cider with a surprising backstory at this family-owned cidery.

View roughly 7,000 books amassed over decades by the author and avid bibliophile.

Some 46,000 years ago, a volcanic eruption led to a flooding event that carved this short canyon with steep vertical walls.

This circular artwork represents the ancient microscopic organisms that created the chalk foundations of the North Downs Way.

Built for herding sheep, these tiny winding lanes with medieval origins and distinctive series of narrow turns are charming walkways for humans today.

This tower is one of the best-preserved (and least-visited) remnants of medieval Paris.

Dating from the 18th century to today, this museum houses a collection of over 1,200 musical instruments.

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

Rabanadas, the Portuguese answer to French toast, are reborn here with a glassy sugar crust and a center as light as whipped cream.

This abandoned park is home to hundreds of stone statues ranging from humans to mystical beings.

A remarkable prehistoric site featuring well-preserved Talayotic structures offers a glimpse into the ancient civilizations that once thrived on Menorca.

Erected in memory of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was born close to this spot, this statue commemorates the author and his famous detective.

An outdoor gallery of sculptures chiseled from a unique stone.

These spindly, stone-capped formations are the product of glacial deposits and thousands of years of erosion.

A stunning little chapel built on a rock in the Mediterranean Sea on the Greek island of Leros.

Hundreds of painted rocks dazzle this small beach where adding your own is encouraged.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

This earthwork installation sits on a grassy hill, celebrating Iceland's past and present.

These wave-cut overhangs on ancient Lake Chewaucan contain some of the oldest evidence of human habitation in North America.

These ancient burial caves carved into the cliffs offer a glimpse into prehistoric funeral practices and Menorca's early inhabitants.

This 3,000-year-old “opium black fortress” towers over the ancient town named after it.