Savor sheep milk yogurt at the last of Athens' dairy bars.

This building displays the scars of the “Dekemvriana,” a dark time in modern Greek history.

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

A Byzantine church containing the holy remnants of three saints sits atop the site of an ancient temple.

This Ottoman-era church is hidden amid a busy tourist area.

The only surviving choragic monument is a trophy awarded in 334 BC for the winning dramatic chorus.

These ancient ruins hide in plain sight next to a dessert shop.

The second oldest surviving house in Athens was owned by an Irish General.

A martyred saint built a nunnery and school for girls here known as the "Parthenon."

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

This abandoned shopping arcade has new life as an art installation.

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

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

The site where hundreds of Greeks were tortured by the Nazi secret police is now a cosmetics store.

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

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

This small chapel holds the mummified heart of one of the heroes of the Greek Revolution.

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

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

These caves secretly held national treasures during World War II.

A Byzantine-era church hidden in a wooded area below the Acropolis.

A unique housing complex born from the aftermath of the Greek Civil War.

Elaborate stone houses constructed from the ruins of war.

This graffitied 19th-century building was a prototype of European industrial architecture.