Places Jason C Wants to Go

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

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.

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

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

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

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.

Created by one of England's most prolific labyrinth designers, inspired by Bath city history.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

The tunnel's elegant proportions keep you snug with no claustrophobia freak-out.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.