Places Guthbrand Wants to Go

A 160-year-old tower built in honor of a scholar who was burned at the stake for translating the Bible.

A historic cavernous cistern lies hidden behind a wall at San Marino’s stamp and coin museum.

Royals, rebels, and artists have all conversed at this grand 19th-century Viennese coffee house.

An unsettling shrine dedicated to the ravenous beast that prowled 18th-century France.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

This mission, established in 1771, is the most remote of California’s Franciscan missions.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

Oldest building in California still in use.

Get to know the plant-based fare of Chinese Buddhist monks.

After several centuries as the home of coastal defenses, this island is full of history—and maybe ghosts.

Human figures and faces are carved into the sandstone surrounding this cave in Czechia.

This restaurant is devoted to celebrating Appalachia's cuisine.

Legend holds that St. Paul was flogged for preaching Christianity at this pillar.

Inside this Krakow church, an explosion of psychedelic color.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

A mythological Celtic beast built with thousands of colorful tiles stands guard over a historic canal junction.

Europe's largest river aquarium features freshwater species from around the world.

These bronze horses on the gates of the Royal Palace of Naples were a gift from a Russian tsar.

This curious gravestone tells the legend of an unknown mariner's grisly murder.

A mysterious castle "in the clouds" has had many lives including a radar bunker, dog hotel, and conference center.

Copenhagen's "other" little mermaid marks the historic location of past sea maid sightings.

An 18th-century hunting lodge turned haunted Baroque palace.

On the clock tower at St. Anne's Church in Cork, you never know which face is telling the truth.