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

A man's head is enshrined beneath a statue near the first building constructed for the modern Olympic Games.

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

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

The oldest standing Byzantine church in Athens is tucked within a monastery in the middle of an upscale shopping district.

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

A Byzantine-era church hidden in a wooded area below the Acropolis.

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

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

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

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

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

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

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

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

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

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

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

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

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

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

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