Places Pengwn Wants to Go

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

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

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

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

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

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

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

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 number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.