Places CaseyB Wants to Go

Honoring the Guinness brewer whose quest for the perfect pint led to the creation of the t-test, a cornerstone of modern statistics.

A two-storey cabinet of wonders filled with the bizarre, the macabre, and the downright uncanny.

Tiny silver and copper fish set inside blue-green lights are like windows to the underwater world.

Believed to be the only Orthodox church in the world that features a free-standing pulpit.

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

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

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

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

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

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

A pre-war mansion that survived the modernization of Athens.

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

A former royal garden with lush surroundings in the heart of the city.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

This small chapel holds the mummified heart of one of the heroes of the Greek Revolution.

This small museum once served as a royal hunting pavilion for King Otto Friedrich Ludwig.

A man's head is enshrined beneath a statue near the first building constructed for the modern Olympic Games.

The burial place of one the greatest Arthurian authors, with the sword in the (grave)stone.

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

This graffitied 19th-century building was a prototype of European industrial architecture.

The ruins of this ancient fortification wall sit in the middle of a quiet, residential intersection.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

View the ancient remains of buildings and the ancient "River of Hades" before hopping on a train.