Places positivelypossessed Wants to Go

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

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

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.

Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

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

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

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

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

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

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

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

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

The elliptical citadel resisted the advance of the mighty Ottomans several times, thanks to the military prowess of the "Dragon of Albania."

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.