Places Scott Terrell Wants to Go

This smily stone feline is meant to represent a mythical lion that almost destroyed the island of Kea.

The Greek island's old British cemetery feels like a forgotten garden.

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

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

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

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

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

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

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

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

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

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

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

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

Mausoleum and Holy Seat of Antiochus I of Commagene.

Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.

Once described as the "Eagle's Nest," this ruined ancient city rests on a remote mountaintop.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

A small mountain at the crossroads of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria that some believe was the landing point of Noah's Ark.