Places aemem Wants to Go

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’ immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

This secret coastal village is studded with pastel-colored houses all piled on top of one another.

Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

A little-known park with unusual, half-ruined structures and a mystical energy.

The ruins of this monumental city founded by the first Roman Emperor are strangely overlooked by most travelers.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

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

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

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

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

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