Places kirbyf Wants to Go

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

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

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

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

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

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

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

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

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

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

Seventeen oak trees sprout from the roof and walls of this tiny chapel without any visual evidence of roots.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

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

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

The secular incarnation of a religious meditation.

This smily stone feline is meant to represent a mythical lion that almost destroyed the island of Kea.

Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.