Since 1969, this restaurant has served up dishes typical of Istanbul's Greek diaspora.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

This small chapel holds the mummified heart of one of the heroes of the Greek Revolution.

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

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

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

One of the greatest collections of coins in the world is housed in the former mansion of an archeological pioneer.

Scars of this building's past life as a violent prison still cover its walls.

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

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

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

This post-Ottoman era church in Athens was built by locals to serve the residents of Anafiotica

One of the best collections of Byzantine art housed in a magnificent, 19th-century neoclassical home.

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

A historic building houses one of the most important archaeological institutes in Europe.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

Preserved portions of Athens's ancient defenses are on display in a subterranean parking garage.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

A martyred saint built a nunnery and school for girls here known as the "Parthenon."

The second oldest surviving house in Athens was owned by an Irish General.

This Ottoman-era church is hidden amid a busy tourist area.

The home of Greece’s national poet sits crumbling in the middle of a popular tourist district.

This building displays the scars of the “Dekemvriana,” a dark time in modern Greek history.

The only ancient site that remains on the south bank of the sacred Ilissos river.