Places AriAlbD Wants to Go

A museum dedicated to a unique ecosystem.

The oldest church building in the state.

This lake—the second largest in the state— was hiding historic treasures beneath its surface.

A museum built around the site where the most controversial human remains in the country were found.

These millennia-old murals once covered the walls of residential complexes across the ancient city.

Dine on superb local staples in a converted historic church.

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

A relatively obscure antihero from the Marvel Comics universe adorns a wall inside Iceland's main airport.

A tribute to the successful role of the Keflavik Naval Air Station in the defense of Iceland, United States and NATO Alliance.

This lesser-visited World Heritage site in Athens boasts an impressive ensemble of medieval gold mosaics.

A unique housing complex born from the aftermath of the Greek Civil War.

One of the best collections of Byzantine art housed in a magnificent, 19th-century neoclassical home.

Elaborate stone houses constructed from the ruins of war.

This Byzantine Church was moved from Paris to Athens block by block.

An ancient Greek monument and a Byzantine church coexist inside this cave.

Legend says it was constructed with the destroyed pillar of an ancient Greek Temple.

According to legend, this ancient column contains healing properties.

The ruins of an ancient mansion sits in front of and underneath a contemporary art gallery.

There are many Byzantine-era churches still standing in Athens, but this is the only one with a 2,500-year-old column rising through its roof.

A Byzantine church containing the holy remnants of three saints sits atop the site of an ancient temple.