Places amandahagar Wants to Go

This enchanting 600-year-old tree is so magical it inspired the beloved tale of Pinocchio.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

This seaside sanctuary was once one of the most important religious sites for women in ancient Greece.

Learn about the sweet, storied legacy of beekeeping in ancient Greece.

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

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.

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

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

This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.

According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.

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

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.