The Top Travel Destinations with Kevin Flanagan
Aug 4, 2026 · 14 min · 9 segments
Vienna: schnitzel, Sachertorte, coffee-house afternoons — and, hidden in the Hofburg's Imperial Treasury, an iron spearhead legend calls the Spear of Destiny: the lance of Longinus, coveted by…
The famous man said, the world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
I've been greedy with that travel book all my life, and today I want to bring you to the page that changed mine.
The dictator stole it and one afternoon a former ballet dancer, that's me, with an arts history degree and no particular plan, stood in front of it and walked out with a novel idea growing in his head.
This is the Hofburg Museum and the object I'm looking at is the Spear of Destiny.
The famous man said, the world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
I've been greedy with that travel book all my life, and today I want to bring you to the page that changed mine.
The dictator stole it and one afternoon a former ballet dancer, that's me, with an arts history degree and no particular plan, stood in front of it and walked out with a novel idea growing in his head.
This is the Hofburg Museum and the object I'm looking at is the Spear of Destiny.
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