Places Madeleine Wants to Go

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

A collection of 4,000 thimbles that's more versatile than one might imagine.

Picnic on the seashore in the footsteps of ancient kings, protected by giant mythical cat beasts.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

Largest island in the Baltic Sea experiences such idyllic weather that roses bloom in the middle of December.

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

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

Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

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

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

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

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

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

The secular incarnation of a religious meditation.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

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

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.