Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

A crushed gate and giant bronze head serve as a reminder of Greece's fight for freedom.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

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

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

This remarkable cave was discovered after a shepherd watched bees enter and exit through a small fissure.

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

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.