Places Braecrest Wants to Go

The smallest port in France is named after the pirate who created it.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

A monument to the thousands of Canadian soldiers who died capturing the French ridge during World War I.

Climb this overlooked gem's spiral staircase and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views of Glasgow.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

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

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

Portugal’s highest lighthouse has one of the most impressive focal planes in the world.

A remarkably well preserved tower dating all the way back to the Iron Age.

A lush oasis full of vibrant plants and striking geometric displays.

A hotly contested micro-nation off the coast of Montserrat.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

Every September, international competitors flock to the flooded quarries of a tiny Scottish island.

A rare permanent monument to the Scottish Travellers.

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

A rare rune stone dedicated to a woman.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

This large pile of traveler-curated rocks by the dry lakebed is a longstanding tradition on the Old Mojave Road.