Places Oops3ggs Wants to Go

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

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.

The ruins of this monumental city founded by the first Roman Emperor are strangely overlooked by most travelers.

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

A little-known park with unusual, half-ruined structures and a mystical energy.

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.

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

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

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

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

Local lore says two enemy dragons live within these breathtaking mountain lakes.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

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

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

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

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

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

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.

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