Mesopotamos, Greece
Necromanteion of Ephyra
Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Mesopotamos, Greece
Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.
Ashbourne, England
This wild game of "football" between two sections of an English town has been staged every year for countless centuries.
Agion Oros, Greece
The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.
Corfu, Greece
The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.
Sparta, Greece
The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.
Seville, Spain
The world's largest wooden structure.
Sanlúcar la Mayor, Spain
Spain's stunning solar energy plant.
Huelva, Spain
This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.
Marinaleda, Spain
A micro-communist utopia in Spain with no police, no mortgages and full employment.
Villar del Pozo, Spain
An abandoned airport in the middle of nowhere.
Italy
The forbidden island of the Tuscan Archipelago may still contain buried treasure.
Dublin, Ireland
An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.
Hullo, Estonia
Hundreds of unusual wheel crosses poke above the earth in this small Estonian cemetery.
Palasi, Estonia
Two well-hidden huts let animal lovers spend the night among the bears, wolves, and other predators of the forest.
Sillamäe, Estonia
This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.
Estonia
This peculiar border irregularity is the only way to legally enter Russia without a visa.
Saaremaa, Estonia
Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.
Kittilä, Finland
A lumberjack in Finnish Lapland did not want to cut down his Arctic pines, so he offered them up to be adopted by nature-lovers.
Ruokolahti, Finland
Legend has this precariously placed rock was placed by giants. Science has another explanation.
Helsinki, Finland
An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.
Nantes, France
Sleep in the hay, spin the wheel and eat grain pellets to your heart's delight.
Couëron, France
The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.
Huelgoat, France
If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.