Places Tatiana Harkiolakis Wants to Go

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

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

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

A magical, if a bit tacky, 1960s castle conjures up medieval fairytales and Greek mythology.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

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

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

This open air archeological site houses almost as much wildlife as it does classical religious artifacts.

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

The secular incarnation of a religious meditation.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.