Places eaksoy Wants to Go

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

Seventeen oak trees sprout from the roof and walls of this tiny chapel without any visual evidence of roots.

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

Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

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

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

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