Nafplio, Greece
Church of Agios Spyridon
The historic building has preserved human organs, unusual hexagrams, and scars from a political assassination.
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Nafplio, Greece
The historic building has preserved human organs, unusual hexagrams, and scars from a political assassination.
Nafplio, Greece
Public water fountains built during the Ottoman Era still stand throughout this seaside town.
Nafplio, Greece
This church is dedicated to the patron saint of seafarers.
Nafplio, Greece
This building served as the first customs house in modern Greece.
Nafplio, Greece
This building was once the most magnificent mansion in Nafplio.
Nafplio, Greece
This slumbering beast honors the Bavarian soldiers who died in Greece during a 19th-century typhoid outbreak.
Arkadiko, Greece
Built by the Ancient Greeks, this chariot bridge is still in use today.
Nafplio, Greece
A staircase made of gravestones leads up to this church built into a giant rock.
Isthmia, Greece
A closer look at this somewhat faded hotel by the Corinth Canal reveals the architectural undertones of a genius.
Athens, Greece
This historic structure has been used as a mosque, a barracks, a prison, a school, and a bakery.
Athens, Greece
An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.
Athens, Greece
This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.
Athens, Greece
Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.
Penteli, Greece
The heads and relics of 179 monks slaughtered by pirates are on display within this Ceonobic Monastery.
Valletta, Malta
The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
A public work of art that also provides some relief from the summer heat.
Pristina, Kosovo
A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.
Pristina, Kosovo
A 11-foot former president stands on a Kosovo street that also bears his name.
Sofia, Bulgaria
"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.
Slanchevo, Bulgaria
Mysterious standing stone formations looks like a petrified forest.
Athens, Greece
This small museum once served as a royal hunting pavilion for King Otto Friedrich Ludwig.
Athens, Greece
The site where hundreds of Greeks were tortured by the Nazi secret police is now a cosmetics store.
Zadar, Croatia
A musical instrument played by the sea.
Split, Croatia
The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.