Places JonAkzar Wants to Go

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

A unique housing complex born from the aftermath of the Greek Civil War.

An important example of architectural history slowly decays in the city center.

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

The ruins of an ancient fortification wall sit in front of and underneath this boutique hotel.

A tiny Greek Orthodox church from the Ottoman era hides on a busy city street.

This graffitied 19th-century building was a prototype of European industrial architecture.

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

Scars of this building's past life as a violent prison still cover its walls.

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

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’ immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.

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

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

This remarkable cave was discovered after a shepherd watched bees enter and exit through a small fissure.

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