Places aemem Wants to Go

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

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

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.

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

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

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Designed to resemble foreign architecture, this mosque-looking structure was used to pump water to a royal fountain.

The largest mosque in Germany.

Centuries of warfare, tragedy, executions, and poetry come together in this 13th-century fortress.

This medieval cathedral houses stained-glass windows featuring saints and pretzels.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

A typical crusty old museum this isn't.

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

An exquisite panometer representing Dresden as it was from 1695 to 1760.

A ruined castle stands atop a hill surrounded by dragon lore.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

Now overgrown, these anti-tank barriers from World War II are sometimes called "dragon's teeth."

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.