This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

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

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

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

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

Local lore says two enemy dragons live within these breathtaking mountain lakes.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

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

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

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

Monks in the empyreal Alazani River valley have preserved their 1,000-year-old winemaking tradition.

At this rare mosque in Tbilisi, Sunni and Shia Muslims pray side by side.

This architecturally eclectic fortress witnessed centuries of bloody turmoil, including the massacre of its ruling clan.

A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.