Places ckoohle Wants to Go

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

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

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

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

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

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

This stoic bronze soldier stands as a symbol of Russian sacrifice or Soviet oppression, or maybe both.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

The oldest church in the Estonian capital is home to over 100 fantastical cemetery coats-of-arms.

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

This medieval Estonian tower provides access to a series of tunnels that have been home to soldiers, punks, and fine art.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

The statue of a legendary giant who carried Christ and shouldered the world's sins.