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

The only surviving choragic monument is a trophy awarded in 334 BC for the winning dramatic chorus.

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

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.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

In an isolated field near a dilapidated barn stands this chilling portrayal of the plight of the Nuba peoples of Sudan.

This oddly shaped building is a surprising Soviet-era crematorium.

This once architecturally advanced housing complex is now a haven for squatters that still bears the scars of war.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

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

A lonely medieval monastery on an uninhabited island.

This Greek cinema was architecturally inspired by Mussolini's vision of a fascist Mediterranean utopia.

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

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

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

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

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