Thessaloniki, Greece
Bensousan Han
An arts and culture melting pot inside an old roadside inn from the Ottoman era.
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Thessaloniki, Greece
An arts and culture melting pot inside an old roadside inn from the Ottoman era.
Athens, Greece
The ruins of an ancient mansion sits in front of and underneath a contemporary art gallery.
Athens, Greece
One of the greatest collections of coins in the world is housed in the former mansion of an archeological pioneer.
Athens, Greece
This graffitied 19th-century building was a prototype of European industrial architecture.
Spetses, Greece
Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.
Kalarrites, Greece
This 13th-century monastery chiseled into the side of a mountain is equipped with a bridge that can be lifted to protect against raids.
Rhodes, Greece
Learn about the sweet, storied legacy of beekeeping in ancient Greece.
Pirgi, Greece
This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.
Konitsa, Greece
One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.
Egeo, Greece
Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.
Nisi, Greece
Poseidon? No one seems to know.
Mikonos, Greece
Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.
Thessaloniki, Greece
Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.
Athens, Greece
The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.
Greece
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
Borgloon, Belgium
Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.
Brussels, Belgium
Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.
Brussels, Belgium
Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.
Brussels, Belgium
Dummies recreate radiological discoveries from history.
Leuven, Belgium
A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.
Leuven, Belgium
This whimsical statue dumps water on its head to symbolize knowledge flowing into his brain. Or maybe booze.
Duisburg, Germany
This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.
Genk, Belgium
This collection of solar timekeepers includes the world's first digital sundial.
Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.