Places Paiva Wants to Go

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

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

The historic tower houses of this nearly abandoned Greek town have been compared to the spikes on an iguana's back.

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

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

Ruins of a 13th-century fortress perched above a breathtaking Mediterranean bay.

This open air archeological site houses almost as much wildlife as it does classical religious artifacts.

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

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

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

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

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

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

Seventeen oak trees sprout from the roof and walls of this tiny chapel without any visual evidence of roots.

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

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.