Munich, Germany
Jeweled Skeleton of Saint Munditia
The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.
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Munich, Germany
The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.
Figueres, Spain
This overlooked museum houses an amazing collection of rare, antique typewriters.
Barcelona, Spain
This generously endowed statue once stood guard outside a Roman home.
Barcelona, Spain
A former steam-powered mill from the 1800s is now an industrial park with a giant steel dragon slide.
Barcelona, Spain
The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.
Barcelona, Spain
This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.
Barcelona, Spain
This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.
Athens, Greece
A crushed gate and giant bronze head serve as a reminder of Greece's fight for freedom.
Lasithi, Greece
This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.
Spetses, Greece
Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.
Athens, Greece
These caves secretly held national treasures during World War II.
Acharnes, Greece
After a catastrophic forest fire, a Greek artist transformed scorched tree trunks outside an old sanatorium into this haunting sculpture garden.
Lesbos Prefecture, Greece
The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.
Chios, Greece
An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.
Corfu, Greece
The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.
Athens, Greece
This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.
Laconia, Greece
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.
Paleopoli, Greece
Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.
Thessaloniki, Greece
This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.
Thessaloniki, Greece
An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.
Livadia, Greece
This secret coastal village is studded with pastel-colored houses all piled on top of one another.
Athens, Greece
This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.
Arcadia, Greece
Seventeen oak trees sprout from the roof and walls of this tiny chapel without any visual evidence of roots.
Lasithi, Greece
This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.