Places Madeleine Wants to Go

This graffitied 19th-century building was a prototype of European industrial architecture.

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

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

A Byzantine-era church hidden in a wooded area below the Acropolis.

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

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

The ruins of an ancient Roman tomb hidden in the basement of a trendy clothing store.

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

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

The hollow trunk of this 650-year-old tree was used as a hideout by two Jewish brothers during World War II.