A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

This old museum contains dozens of detailed miniature ships and buildings.

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

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

Rest stops along this pathway offer some of the best views of the Acropolis of Athens.

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

A man's head is enshrined beneath a statue near the first building constructed for the modern Olympic Games.

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

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

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

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

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

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A famed artist's inspiring work of peace and tolerance.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

A unique bridge with an equally unique view.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”