Places James Gage Wants to Go

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

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

A lonely medieval monastery on an uninhabited island.

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

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

The Greek island's old British cemetery feels like a forgotten garden.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

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

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

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

A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

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

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

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