Places brucewatson71 Wants to Go

One of the greatest collections of coins in the world is housed in the former mansion of an archeological pioneer.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

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

A crushed gate and giant bronze head serve as a reminder of Greece's fight for freedom.

The Lobotesis family has been baking some of the best savory pies in Athens since 1910.

Scars of this building's past life as a violent prison still cover its walls.

The site where hundreds of Greeks were tortured by the Nazi secret police is now a cosmetics store.

Savor sheep milk yogurt at the last of Athens' dairy bars.

One of Minoan Crete's most famous images, a crowned, lily-adorned figure striding through a garden, was largely invented in the 1900s from a handful of surviving fragments, and archaeologists still argue about what it actually shows.

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

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

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

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

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

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’ immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

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

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

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

The original home of the Caesar Salad.