Places dtrykken Wants to Go

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

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

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

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

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

Sip creative cocktails in the former vault of the Riggs Bank.

Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.

In the basement of the U.S. Capitol Building is a hidden storage room full of ornate floor tiles leftover from the 1850s.

The district's only illusionarium supports free writing programs for local students with every purchase.

Press 1 for knock-knock jokes.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

One of Mother Nature’s geological gems, home to many prehistoric fossils.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

Large-scale operations in these mines ceased in the 1960s, leaving behind crumbling processing facilities and deserted living quarters.

This restaurant sits within the walls of an 18th-century fortification that once defended the city’s old quarter.

Known to backpackers as the "Steps of Doom," this walkway carved into the side of a seaside cliff leads to the Roman Tombs.

This iconic cinema is home to Tangier's Cinémathèque and a symbol of the city's vibrant film scene.

This former community granary is now a lonely mountaintop shrine.

A sign marks where the two bodies of water meet.

This stucco building in North Africa was the first American-owned property on foreign soil.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.