Places artstuffbylori Wants to Go

This clifftop arch is a natural stunner.

This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

On top of a hill, this Catholic church overlooks the most Catholic island in Greece.

Graffiti-covered ruins of a luxurious resort sit among enchanting beaches.

A former factory serves as a shrine to the industry that sustained Santorini for decades.

One of the newest mosques in a city filled with thousands.

Turkish adventurer antiques in the heart of the Grand Bazaar.

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

This crucial gathering spot along the "hippie trail" still displays old notes between traveling beatniks and backpackers.

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

Seven early Christians were sealed into a cave where legend has it they slept unharmed for centuries.

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

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

A mystery of a buried artist and a 14th-century church.

In the early Roman Empire, people deemed traitors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock.

Legend has it that this bronze orb, which sat atop an ancient Egyptian obelisk, once held the ashes of Julius Caesar.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

An ancient Roman temple first dedicated to an emperor's wife is now a church.

A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.