This secret coastal village is studded with pastel-colored houses all piled on top of one another.

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

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

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

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’s immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.

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

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

The ruins of this monumental city founded by the first Roman Emperor are strangely overlooked by most travelers.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

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

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

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

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

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

In the days before house numbers, these colorful signs held clues about various buildings' purposes.

A market built atop boats is one of the few floating holiday markets in Europe.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

The former home of a mad diplomat is said to still be marked in bloody, arcane scrawls.

A poignant museum dedicated to the history of the Dutch resistance against Nazi occupation

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.