Places jlswifty Wants to Go

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

A strange and ancient landscape hides the dark, cavernous remains of a 5,000-year-old flint mine.

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

An underground network of massive stone arches and their skylit vaults support ruins of portico structures above.

These ruins once flourished as the capital of the Lydian kingdom, often credited with the invention of metal coinage.

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

Climb a set of vertiginous stone steps to the top of this impressive ancient edifice.

A section of the long chain that blocked enemy ships from entering Constantinople.

The eclectic home of a leading Turkish architect is a gorgeous piece of eye candy.

This half-forgotten fortress was constructed by the Ottoman conqueror of Constantinople.

This column celebrates Rome's victory over the Goths, and may be the oldest Roman monument in Istanbul.

Ancient serpentine sacrifice holder that has stood the test of time.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

The ruins of this ancient fortification wall sit in the middle of a quiet, residential intersection.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

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

Only open for two days a year, this church links ancient Greek and modern Christian celebrations.