Places andrewkoukouris Wants to Go

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Built by the Ancient Greeks, this chariot bridge is still in use today.

Step inside an ancient beehive tomb built for a mysterious cult hero.

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

Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.

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

A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

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

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

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

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

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

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

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

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

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

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

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