Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

Climb to the top of its spiral spire for spectacular views of Copenhagen.

According to legend, this cavern holds the passage that Persephone used to travel to and from the underworld.

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

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

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

This quaint farm in the Peloponnese countryside hides an astonishing cache of antique curiosities.

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

Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’s immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.

Built by the Ancient Greeks, this chariot bridge is still in use today.

The Greek War of Independence was declared at this medieval Byzantine sanctuary.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

Step inside an ancient beehive tomb built for a mysterious cult hero.

This slumbering beast honors the Bavarian soldiers who died in Greece during a 19th-century typhoid outbreak.

A staircase made of gravestones leads up to this church built into a giant rock.

The historic building has preserved human organs, unusual hexagrams, and scars from a political assassination.

Seventeen oak trees sprout from the roof and walls of this tiny chapel without any visual evidence of roots.