Places JCarmine13 Wants to Go

The historic building has preserved human organs, unusual hexagrams, and scars from a political assassination.

This "volcanic all-day restaurant" is right on the beach.

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.

Step inside an ancient beehive tomb built for a mysterious cult hero.

The secular incarnation of a religious meditation.

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

This black sand beach was crafted from volcanic explosions including the historic Minoan eruption.

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

This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.

These caves secretly held national treasures during World War II.

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

After a catastrophic forest fire, a Greek artist transformed scorched tree trunks outside an old sanatorium into this haunting sculpture garden.

According to legend, this cavern holds the passage that Persephone used to travel to and from the underworld.

Ruins of a 13th-century fortress perched above a breathtaking Mediterranean bay.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

This 13th-century monastery chiseled into the side of a mountain is equipped with a bridge that can be lifted to protect against raids.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

This secret coastal village is studded with pastel-colored houses all piled on top of one another.