Places Guthbrand Wants to Go

Located in a remote mountain valley in Yamagata Prefecture, these hot springs have attracted bathers for over 450 years.

The ruins of a 15th-century castle that has seen its fair share of bitter feuds.

Experience history from the stomping grounds of the great Scottish poet.

Was the ravaging reptilian that terrorized this village a dragon, or an escapee from a London menagerie?

One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.

Leonardo da Vinci was one of many to find inspiration in this unique, rocky landscape in Tuscany.

A stained-glass window from the 15th century offers a vision of the end of the world.

This cannonball embedded in the side of an Edinburgh house once served a surprisingly pedestrian purpose.

This massive work of art was designed to commemorate Burns Night and the national poet of Scotland.

One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.

Several Iron Age artifacts were discovered during excavations of this ancient site.

Some believe that the stone once used to coronate Scottish kings resides inside this bar.

It's believed this well was once plagued with evil spirits until St. Columba purified the water.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

Watch cheese-flipping robots in action at this factory and museum.

This tiny, charming synagogue in the Cayman Islands was built by a man as a present for his Jewish wife.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

The floor of the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas is entirely covered in sand.

Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.