Places lukefishfrench Wants to Go

The spot where Oxford garnered its name was also home to a medieval philosopher and includes a house covered in statues.

Many of Edinburgh's more unsavory characters spent their final days behind this door while awaiting their executions.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

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

Possibly the world's smallest museum is home to one exhibit that sheds light on the capital city's dark criminal history.

Also known as the Blue Church, the building was consecrated to the daughter of Andrew II.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

This may be the last of London's wooden pavements, which were once a common sight in the city.

A Byzantine-era church hidden in a wooded area below the Acropolis.

There are many Byzantine-era churches still standing in Athens, but this is the only one with a 2,500-year-old column rising through its roof.

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

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

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

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

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

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

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

This grave marks one of few bodies retrieved from the disastrous Franklin Arctic expedition.

This sculpture meant to honor the bravery of the Indigenous Mapuche people of Chile proved controversial.