The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

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

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

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

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

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

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

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

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

Once the largest rope factory in Greece, this abandoned plant now stands like a ghost of industry past.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

The ruins of this monumental city founded by the first Roman Emperor are strangely overlooked by most travelers.

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