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

This building served as the first customs house in modern Greece.

This 18th-century former mosque held the first Hellenic Parliament.

This small museum once served as a royal hunting pavilion for King Otto Friedrich Ludwig.

A crushed gate and giant bronze head serve as a reminder of Greece's fight for freedom.

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

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

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.

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

This Ottoman-era Greek Orthodox Church was built to honor Agia Pareskevi, a Christian saint.

This century-old, family-run bakery specializes in loukoumades, a Greek doughnut once served to ancient Olympians.

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

This church is dedicated to the patron saint of seafarers.

Public water fountains built during the Ottoman Era still stand throughout this seaside town.

This slumbering beast honors the Bavarian soldiers who died in Greece during a 19th-century typhoid outbreak.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Artist Jack Pierson made this surreal sculpture in honor of Wonder Valley, a countercultural community on edge of civilization.

Meet 'Big Josh,' the 20-foot-tall muffler man.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.

Icelandic folklore says this giant boulder was ripped from the mountains and placed at its current location, where it became home to elves.

The Hveragerði fissure runs through this unassuming shopping center.