After Marco Polo, Columbus, and Vasco da Gama, the next great explorer sets off on a journey. Dennis Gastmann explores the last undiscovered countries of this world: Akhzivland, Karakalpakstan, R'as al-Chaima - magical places that are distant, unknown, or forgotten. Gastmann sails aboard a ghost ship towards Pitcairn, a rock in the South Seas where the descendants of the Bounty mutineers live. They ask him to stay forever - there is a shortage of young people. He wanders through the thousand-year-old monk republic on Mount Athos, where tourists are unwelcome and women are a scandal - the bearded holy men wish to remain among themselves. Gastmann dives with a pack of sharks in Palau, the world's first shark sanctuary, and searches for love in Transnistria, a mafia state that advises visitors: "You'd be better off going to Spain!" He gets caught in desert storms and is stranded for days in one.