This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

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

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

Local lore says two enemy dragons live within these breathtaking mountain lakes.

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

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

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

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

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

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

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

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

This Buddhist monastery once housed an image of Buddha containing a 19-carat diamond.

This extravagant villa built by a Burmese merchant is part pagoda and part European mansion.

A grand example of 19th century Burmese teak architecture, and the most significant of Mandalay's historic buildings.

This golden temple is surrounded by hundreds of stone tablets that comprise the "world's largest book."

The oldest teak bridge in the world is made from the remains of a royal palace.

This gem-encrusted temple is said to contain some of the Buddha's hair which can make the deaf hear and the blind see.

A solemn reminder of the infamous World War II war crime that massacred almost all the men in a small Greek town.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.