Places flashnick Wants to Go

A little-known park with unusual, half-ruined structures and a mystical energy.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

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

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

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

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

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

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A labor of love by laborers in the sign-making business.

This unusual rock formation in Berks County is nearly a mile long and may date from the Ice Age.

This sculpture by a local artist is designed to celebrate the first day of each new season.

North Dakota's smallest store only has tiny items.

A statue in Enterprise, Alabama hailing the fast food giant Ronald McDonald, stylized as a boll weevil.

This monument marks the point where Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri intersect.

The largest open-air museum in southern Europe, where nature and contemporary art exist in harmony.

Chase waterfalls, hiking trails and more.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

One-time largest man-made structure in the world will be a park in 30 years.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

The collection is exhibited in a Staten Island building modeled on traditional Himalayan architecture.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.