Places Zesra Wants to Go

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Tear apart fatty, gently charred lamb chops with your bare hands.

A unique set of caves that spits waves back out into the ocean.

These abandoned salt flats are now a haven for wildlife.

These sea caves are the source of Xigia Beach's distinct aroma.

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

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

According to legend, this cavern holds the passage that Persephone used to travel to and from the underworld.

These caves secretly held national treasures during World War II.

This small museum once served as a royal hunting pavilion for King Otto Friedrich Ludwig.

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

Commercial aircraft storage facility, where you can see a TWA 747.

Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.

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

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

A small island with shimmering pink sands, home to loggerhead turtles and rare plants.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.