Places k8bliz Wants to Go

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

A small island with shimmering pink sands, home to loggerhead turtles and rare plants.

A former factory serves as a shrine to the industry that sustained Santorini for decades.

Get hands on with the technological marvels of the Classical world.

This pink watchtower served as the seat of the Greek government after independence from the Turks.

The site where hundreds of Greeks were tortured by the Nazi secret police is now a cosmetics store.

This architecturally eclectic early-20th century mosque was built as a place of worship for the Islamic followers of a Jewish messiah.

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

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

The secular incarnation of a religious meditation.

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

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

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

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

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

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.