Places hapichapi Wants to Go

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

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

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.

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

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

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Charnel house at the foot of Mount Sinai.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

The world's second largest salt mine, said to have been discovered by Alexander the Great's horse.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.