Places R Sevens Wants to Go

This seaside sanctuary was once one of the most important religious sites for women in ancient Greece.

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.

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

One of the greatest collections of coins in the world is housed in the former mansion of an archeological pioneer.

According to legend, this cavern holds the passage that Persephone used to travel to and from the underworld.

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

An often overlooked ancient site in downtown Athens with substantial history (and nature).

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

Luminaries of all stripes have sipped strong Greek coffee at this cafe since 1839.

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

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

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

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

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

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

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

The ruins of an ancient Roman tomb hidden in the basement of a trendy clothing store.

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

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