Places Robbert Wants to Go

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

A gravity-defying "devil's bridge" that has a surprising architectural feature for its stability.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

The oldest church in Iceland is one of the few to feature ornate decoration.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

A Scottish manor with a history of mysterious fires, magic, and eccentric tales

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.