Places Guthbrand Wants to Go

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.

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

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

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

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

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

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

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

A cave network located at the southernmost tip of mainland Greece was once believed to be an entrance to Hades.

According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

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

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

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.

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

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

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

Icelandic settlement in Manitoba established in 1875.