Places alexsinclairlack Wants to Go

Underground monastery and fortress.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

The Greek island's old British cemetery feels like a forgotten garden.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

A seaside castle complex that stood through centuries of conquests.

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

Local lore says two enemy dragons live within these breathtaking mountain lakes.

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

Believed to be the only Orthodox church in the world that features a free-standing pulpit.

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

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

Once the largest rope factory in Greece, this abandoned plant now stands like a ghost of industry past.

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

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

An arts and culture melting pot inside an old roadside inn from the Ottoman era.

The partially submerged ruins of a white marble quarry used in ancient Greece for over 1,200 years.

This charming, hidden guild museum holds some 700 years of crossbow history.

A turquoise lake within a volcanic crater.