Places millajsyrjanen Wants to Go

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

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

The Lobotesis family has been baking some of the best savory pies in Athens since 1910.

One of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe.

This 11th-century Greek monastery has renowned mosaics and relics of a brutal past.

An intricate network of underground tombs carved into volcanic rock.

Built by the Ancient Greeks, this chariot bridge is still in use today.

A dark, narrow tunnel that leads to a charming lake and waterfall.

A magical, if a bit tacky, 1960s castle conjures up medieval fairytales and Greek mythology.

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

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

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

Learn about the sweet, storied legacy of beekeeping in ancient Greece.

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

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

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

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

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

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

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

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

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.

This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.