Every country. The places worth the trip.
A slow-built travel reference: the waterfalls, castles, museums and market halls of all 243 countries, and the legends behind them.
Spin the globe - every country opens its page. Your marked countries glow clay.
From the Journal the stories behind the places
The Legend of the Northern Lights
Foxes of fire, restless ancestors and a bridge of light - what the peoples of the north believed the aurora was, and where you can stand under it yourself.
The Kraken of the Norwegian Sea
Norwegian sailors swore a beast the size of an island hunted their coast. The legend of the kraken, the whirlpool that inspired it, and where to see that sea today.
The Ravens of the Tower
If the ravens ever leave the Tower of London, the kingdom falls. The story behind Britain's strangest state tradition, and the birds paid to keep it standing.
The Curse of the Pharaohs
Death shall come on swift wings - the story of the mummy's curse, what really happened after Tutankhamun's tomb was opened, and where to walk into the legend.
Did Santorini Inspire Atlantis?
A great island civilisation destroyed by the sea in a single day. Plato's Atlantis is a legend, but something very like it really happened in the Aegean.
The Hidden People of Iceland
Roads bend around boulders, and trolls stand frozen on the shore. Why Iceland still makes room for elves, and where the strange landscape explains everything.
El Dorado: The Golden Lake
The city of gold never existed - but the golden man did. The true story behind El Dorado, the lake at its heart, and where the legend's real treasure sits today.
Legends of Mount Fuji
A princess of blossoms, an elixir of life burned on the summit and a mountain that is itself a goddess - the stories Japan tells about its perfect volcano.
The Troll Hole of Torghatten
A mountain in Norway has a hole shot straight through it. Geology has one explanation, the trolls have a better one - an arrow, a hat and a chase at dawn.
What we cover and what we deliberately do not
Five categories, all of them evergreen: places that are still there next year. That is also why you will not find single bars and restaurants here - they close, move and change hands. Food is covered where it stays true: market halls, food streets and the dishes a place is genuinely known for.
