Places acbehnke Wants to Go

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

An ancient Thracian city where fire rituals were practiced on the largest cult altar in Southeast Europe.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

An architectural marvel that spans the Arda River, and has stories of a haunted past.

Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.

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

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

A cemetery for Slovenian notables also serves as a popular recreation space.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

A bridge destroyed three times: once as a ruse, then in an actual attack, and finally for the movies.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

Humble beginnings for one of the world's most famous scientists.