Places Doot Wants to Go

The only ancient site that remains on the south bank of the sacred Ilissos river.

After a catastrophic forest fire, a Greek artist transformed scorched tree trunks outside an old sanatorium into this haunting sculpture garden.

An often overlooked ancient site in downtown Athens with substantial history (and nature).

The oldest standing Byzantine church in Athens is tucked within a monastery in the middle of an upscale shopping district.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A former factory serves as a shrine to the industry that sustained Santorini for decades.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

New Zealand's most advertised nonexistent landmark

The "punniest place on Earth” has nearly as many bull-themed puns as it does people.

This bakery sells traditional Māori sourdough.

Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.

Nature's slip and slide.

This mechanical clock performs "Romeo and Juliet" in a Shakespeare-themed New Zealand town.

This remote highway took over 50 years to build.

Come for the bait, stay for the brioche.

The once and future home of New Zealand's famed Pink and White Terraces.

Deadly scalding and one of the largest hot springs in the world.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.