Athens, Greece
Klafthmonos Square Parking Structure Fortification Walls
Preserved portions of Athens's ancient defenses are on display in a subterranean parking garage.
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Athens, Greece
Preserved portions of Athens's ancient defenses are on display in a subterranean parking garage.
Athens, Greece
This Ottoman-era Greek Orthodox Church was built to honor Agia Pareskevi, a Christian saint.
Athens, Greece
A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.
Penteli, Greece
Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.
Penteli, Greece
The heads and relics of 179 monks slaughtered by pirates are on display within this Ceonobic Monastery.
Athens, Greece
Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.
Athens, Greece
Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.
Athens, Greece
Underneath one of the region's most historic roads lies the home of Plato's successor.
Athens, Greece
Legend says it was constructed with the destroyed pillar of an ancient Greek Temple.
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Athens, Greece
This historic structure has been used as a mosque, a barracks, a prison, a school, and a bakery.
Athens, Greece
An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.
Athens, Greece
The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.
Acharnes, Greece
After a catastrophic forest fire, a Greek artist transformed scorched tree trunks outside an old sanatorium into this haunting sculpture garden.
Acharnes, Greece
The abandoned summer estate of the former Greek Royal Family.
Greece
Τhis feline monument commemorates fallen soldiers on a field that saw many, many battles.
Greece
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
Larisa, Greece
Dedicated to the god Dionysus, this theatre was used for both musical and theatrical performances.
Dion, Greece
This open air archeological site houses almost as much wildlife as it does classical religious artifacts.
Thessaloniki, Greece
Legends hold that these unusual rock formations were once a bridal party, or perhaps a group of hunters.
Thessaloniki, Greece
These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.
Karlukovo, Bulgaria
The ceiling of Prohodna Cave in northern Bulgaria affords a peek at the sky via two deity-sized-eye-shaped holes.
Bulgaria
These cascading falls resonate throughout the Bulgarian forest.
Devetaki, Bulgaria
A massive cave once a secret military base is now home to thousands of bats.