Places tsurara Wants to Go

The site where hundreds of Greeks were tortured by the Nazi secret police is now a cosmetics store.

A little-known park with unusual, half-ruined structures and a mystical energy.

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

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

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

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

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

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

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

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

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

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

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

A cave network located at the southernmost tip of mainland Greece was once believed to be an entrance to Hades.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

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

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

Eight whimsical acres of metal art.