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

Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

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

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

The only surviving choragic monument is a trophy awarded in 334 BC for the winning dramatic chorus.

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

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

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

The surviving pieces of an ancient aqueduct that may have fed into the lost Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

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