Places Knutiverden Wants to Go

An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.

At low tide, you can see the remains of a 17th-century ship just off a Stockholm island.

Not far from the busy city lie these remains of a time when the world was on fire.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Outside a Viking museum sits a modern-day runestone made by a Swedish runemaster using traditional methods.

The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.

Before the electric telegraph, a chain of stone towers carried messages across France.

Site of one of World War I's most horrific scenes.

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

The Suurhusen church tower in Germany leans over farther than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The only remaining U-boat that is still floating never actually saw any action in World War II.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

Descend into the tunnels to experience the life of a coal miner.