Places Sauerbratan Wants to Go

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A swirling spectrum of stained glass dazzles visitors who enter this subway station.

This roadside attraction looks like a flying saucer parked atop the tundra.

At this Arctic outpost, get to know members of the indigenous Sámi community and meet their herds.

According to the locals, the sands of this secluded Norway beach are infused with gemstone particles.

A thin pane of glass keeps visitors from sliding off this futuristic skywalk.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

A stunning silver lining to global warming's gloomy cloud.

A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.

The former headquarters of history's oldest megacorporation.