Places georgemagraw Wants to Go

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

Dedicated to the god Dionysus, this theatre was used for both musical and theatrical performances.

This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.

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

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

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’ immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

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

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

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

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

The site where hundreds of Greeks were tortured by the Nazi secret police is now a cosmetics store.

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

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

A memorial dedicated to a tragic event during the Axis occupation of Greece.

Remnants of the Nazis' occupation of Denmark linger along the sand.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

A Red Cross memorial museum at the site of the Niš concentration camp that operated for four eventful years during World War II.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

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

Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.

This 1,300-year-old marker is one of the finest and most complete early Christian crosses in Scotland.