Places AmberL Wants to Go

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

This tiny islet has somehow housed an ancient temple, two monasteries, a church, a fortress, and a restaurant.

The nuns here cultivate silk to weave some of the finest scarves in the world.

The secular incarnation of a religious meditation.

According to legend, this cavern holds the passage that Persephone used to travel to and from the underworld.

Ruins of a 13th-century fortress perched above a breathtaking Mediterranean bay.

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

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

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

The ruins of an ancient Roman tomb hidden in the basement of a trendy clothing store.

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

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

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

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

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

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

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