Places Spyros K Wants to Go

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.

Climb a set of vertiginous stone steps to the top of this impressive ancient edifice.

What is left of the pillar of Saint Simeon, the voluntary martyr who climbed the column to give his sermons, remaining perched there for thirty-seven years.

This 6th-century church has the largest and best-preserved collection of Byzantine mosaics outside Constantinople.

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

A section of the long chain that blocked enemy ships from entering Constantinople.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

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

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

This pink watchtower served as the seat of the Greek government after independence from the Turks.

Built by the Ancient Greeks, this chariot bridge is still in use today.

Once the largest rope factory in Greece, this abandoned plant now stands like a ghost of industry past.

Ruins of a 13th-century fortress perched above a breathtaking Mediterranean bay.

Every spring, locals see the shadowy figures of a ghost army of slain Greek soldiers descend upon this ruined fort.

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