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

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

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

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

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

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

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

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

A cave network located at the southernmost tip of mainland Greece was once believed to be an entrance to Hades.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

This remarkable cave was discovered after a shepherd watched bees enter and exit through a small fissure.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

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

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

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

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

According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

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