Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

According to a local legend, this old castle could only be built after a woman was immured in the walls.

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

This abandoned shopping arcade has new life as an art installation.

A historic building houses one of the most important archaeological institutes in Europe.

The only ancient site that remains on the south bank of the sacred Ilissos river.

According to legend, this ancient column contains healing properties.

This small chapel holds the mummified heart of one of the heroes of the Greek Revolution.

After a catastrophic forest fire, a Greek artist transformed scorched tree trunks outside an old sanatorium into this haunting sculpture garden.

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

An often overlooked ancient site in downtown Athens with substantial history (and nature).

One of the greatest collections of coins in the world is housed in the former mansion of an archeological pioneer.

This small museum once served as a royal hunting pavilion for King Otto Friedrich Ludwig.

A Byzantine-era church hidden in a wooded area below the Acropolis.

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

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

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

The ruins of an ancient Roman tomb hidden in the basement of a trendy clothing store.

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

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

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

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

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