A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

This Byzantine Church was moved from Paris to Athens block by block.

This abandoned shopping arcade has new life as an art installation.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

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

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

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

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

Hiding in plane sight.

One of the most photographed locations in the entire city.

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

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

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

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

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

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

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

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

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

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

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

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