Places jesseralejandro Wants to Go

A prehistoric rock shelter that's literally in someone's backyard.

In the middle of a suburban Denver neighborhood is a cave that once provided solace for a prominent Ute chief and his family.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.

A little-known park with unusual, half-ruined structures and a mystical energy.

The historic tower houses of this nearly abandoned Greek town have been compared to the spikes on an iguana's back.

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

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

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

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

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

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

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

A cave network located at the southernmost tip of mainland Greece was once believed to be an entrance to Hades.

This elaborate hole in the ground was built as a sacred site for an ancient civilization.