One of the most historical literary characters continues to stroll his hometown.

On the side of a building, a depiction of the woman who became a local legend by tossing soup out her window.

A plain wooden seat that once belonged to one of the most prominent figures of the Protestant Reformation.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

Scars of this building's past life as a violent prison still cover its walls.

Believed to be the only Orthodox church in the world that features a free-standing pulpit.

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

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

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

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

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

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

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

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

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

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

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

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

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

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

This giant underground cave chamber can only be accessed through a small opening at the top.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.