Scores of wax baby figurines add an unusual mood to this beautiful church on the Greek coast.

This small chapel holds the mummified heart of one of the heroes of the Greek Revolution.

One of the greatest collections of coins in the world is housed in the former mansion of an archeological pioneer.

The oldest standing Byzantine church in Athens is tucked within a monastery in the middle of an upscale shopping district.

A Byzantine-era church hidden in a wooded area below the Acropolis.

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

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

The ruins of an ancient Roman tomb hidden in the basement of a trendy clothing store.

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

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.

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.

More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.