A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

Beautiful antiques and obscure engineering artifacts trace the evolution of phones from rare luxuries to ubiquitous.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

An otherworldly alpine pasture with its own unique microculture that recalls Middle Earth.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

A closer look at this somewhat faded hotel by the Corinth Canal reveals the architectural undertones of a genius.

This building was once the most magnificent mansion in Nafplio.

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

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

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

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

The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

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

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