Places ouroborosasunder Wants to Go

This neighborhood of futuristic ball houses looks like an alien settlement in a science fiction film.

Survival capsules find a second life as a unique hotel.

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.

Worm salt and other local ingredients are on the menu at this cult favorite ice cream shop.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Scores of wax baby figurines add an unusual mood to this beautiful church on the Greek coast.

This "volcanic all-day restaurant" is right on the beach.

This quaint farm in the Peloponnese countryside hides an astonishing cache of antique curiosities.

An arts and culture melting pot inside an old roadside inn from the Ottoman era.

This pink watchtower served as the seat of the Greek government after independence from the Turks.

Get hands on with the technological marvels of the Classical world.

A former factory serves as a shrine to the industry that sustained Santorini for decades.

The nuns here cultivate silk to weave some of the finest scarves in the world.

This beehive tomb built for royalty sat hidden for over 3,000 years.

This black sand beach was crafted from volcanic explosions including the historic Minoan eruption.

The secular incarnation of a religious meditation.

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

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

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

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

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.