Places Deirdreod Wants to Go

This vast collection of smoking pipes from across the world spans centuries.

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

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

The ruins of an ancient Roman tomb hidden in the basement of a trendy clothing store.

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

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.

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.

This may be the last of London's wooden pavements, which were once a common sight in the city.

At this cozy bar tucked down a hidden Galway backroad, Guinness makes the Gaelic come out.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

Several cannonballs of mysterious origins decorate two buildings in Stortoget's main square.

This grave marks one of few bodies retrieved from the disastrous Franklin Arctic expedition.

The only surviving piece of Copenhagen's 16th-century defensive wall.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

This ordinary street was made infamous by a legendary visit from the devil.

A little-known cafe in an old copper bridge tower with 360-degree views of the harbor.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.