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

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

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

A martyred saint built a nunnery and school for girls here known as the "Parthenon."

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

Luminaries of all stripes have sipped strong Greek coffee at this cafe since 1839.

This historic structure has been used as a mosque, a barracks, a prison, a school, and a bakery.

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

This Ottoman-era Greek Orthodox Church was built to honor Agia Pareskevi, a Christian saint.

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

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.

The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.

This black sand beach was crafted from volcanic explosions including the historic Minoan eruption.

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

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

This unique building in the main square stands out among the city's typically Baroque architecture.

Abandoned Roman Catholic chapel abused by Satanists before being restored.

This Stone Age solar temple aligns with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

An eclectic collection of thousands of items owned by the sculptor Frederic Marès.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.