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

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

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

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

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

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

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

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

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

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

The current seat of the Parliament of Andalusia was once the epicenter of the Great Plague of Seville.

Barcelona's only remaining tram system takes riders to the Tibidabo funicular.

A solitary lighthouse in Spain was an inspiration to the great Jules Verne.

This medieval fortification has weathered the centuries better than any other structure from its era.

This colorful statue welcomes visitors to a Barcelona park.

Living towers made of people that are now recognized by UNESCO.

Spanish architects used seized Muslim gravestones to rebuild parts of the fortress.

An independent naturist colony amidst 1000-year-old ruins.

A towering monument in Spain has proven to be more labor-intensive than initially planned.

Barça football fans might see the insignia hidden in a church window as a divine sign.