Places daveschaaf Wants to Go

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

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

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

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

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

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

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

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

"Unity, Creativity, Beauty."

A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.

A vast Communist-era exhibition space in the Bulgarian capital.

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.

17th century palace once a meeting place for politicians.

One of the most controversial statues in Romania is an emperor with no clothes.

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.

This exquisite, alienesque piece of Soviet architecture is being threatened by modern shopping malls.

A Kyiv-based repository for all manners of discarded curiosities.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.