Places RecklessThor Wants to Go

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

An ancient Greek monument and a Byzantine church coexist inside this cave.

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

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

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

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

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

This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

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

Once a state-of-the-art tuberculosis treatment spa, these ruins are now ruled by paintball players.

This former estate of a fascist leader is now a burnt out ruin leading to a system of secret tunnels.

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.

A World War II evacuation tunnel turned into a history display of Croatian state and people.

This 135-year-old weather station studied the effects of the climate on human health.

The medieval center of the Islamic world was also once the seat of Saladin's sultanate.

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

A place for local artists to showcase their works.

Adjacent to Narayanhiti Palace, this park commemorates those who fought in Nepal's civil war.

Hiding in plain sight near Kathmandu’s government center is a giant mandala that has become a locus for political protest.

This Kathmandu museum, built in an Austrian modernist style, looks like a set from Star Wars.