Places ashaclarein Wants to Go

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

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

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

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

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

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

Seventeen oak trees sprout from the roof and walls of this tiny chapel without any visual evidence of roots.

Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

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

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

Just a few miles off the western coast of Ireland lies an isle steeped in Irish literary history.

Local legend says the remains of Father Christmas lie within the medieval grounds.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.