Places irma Wants to Go

These ruins of a sacred Ancient Greek temple stand next to a luxurious modern resort.

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

This smily stone feline is meant to represent a mythical lion that almost destroyed the island of Kea.

These sea caves are the source of Xigia Beach's distinct aroma.

A magical, if a bit tacky, 1960s castle conjures up medieval fairytales and Greek mythology.

Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.

This seaside sanctuary was once one of the most important religious sites for women in ancient Greece.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

The ruins of this monumental city founded by the first Roman Emperor are strangely overlooked by most travelers.

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

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

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

Every spring, locals see the shadowy figures of a ghost army of slain Greek soldiers descend upon this ruined fort.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.