Places 411shirley Wants to Go

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

This remarkable cave was discovered after a shepherd watched bees enter and exit through a small fissure.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Though an earthquake destroyed this village in 1980, one former resident still walks its streets every day.

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.

In this town's main square resides a statue of none other than the 43rd President of the United States.

According to a local legend, this old castle could only be built after a woman was immured in the walls.

Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

Gigantic water vessel, permanently grounded in Southern Albania.

The elliptical citadel resisted the advance of the mighty Ottomans several times, thanks to the military prowess of the "Dragon of Albania."

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.