This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

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

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

The oldest standing Byzantine church in Athens is tucked within a monastery in the middle of an upscale shopping district.

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

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

The Lobotesis family has been baking some of the best savory pies in Athens since 1910.

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

A pre-war mansion that survived the modernization of Athens.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

This marble tower commemorates the first victory of George Washington and a major turning point in the American Revolution

This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.