Places exvine Wants to Go

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

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.

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

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

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

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

This remarkable cave was discovered after a shepherd watched bees enter and exit through a small fissure.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

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

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

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

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

The Canaima airstrip in Venezuela keeps an antique DC 3 plane in its camp.

The statue honors an adventurous seafaring cat.

Nestled amid the trees lies an abandoned funicular railway that dates back to the 1920s.

The latest in a series of long glass bridges suspended at terrifying heights.

For those with no fear of heights: a skywalk 4,700 feet up on a Chinese mountain.

The world’s tallest outdoor lift stretches along the stone pillars that inspired the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”