Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

The remains of the medieval city walls that once protected the Genoese quarter of Constantinople

Taking the subway here means doing so over a bridge located in the middle of an estuary.

This historic hotel preserves many treasures from its heyday hosting passengers on the Orient Express.

One of the newest mosques in a city filled with thousands.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

A Christian pilgrimage site that may have also been a temple for the Greek goddess of love.

A stunning church overlooking the water that you will have all to yourself.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

On top of a hill, this Catholic church overlooks the most Catholic island in Greece.

Believed to be the only Orthodox church in the world that features a free-standing pulpit.

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

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

This Byzantine Church was moved from Paris to Athens block by block.

Elaborate stone houses constructed from the ruins of war.

Rest stops along this pathway offer some of the best views of the Acropolis of Athens.

Underneath one of the region's most historic roads lies the home of Plato's successor.

This post-Ottoman era church in Athens was built by locals to serve the residents of Anafiotica

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

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

The home of Greece’s national poet sits crumbling in the middle of a popular tourist district.