A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

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

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

Inside Cork's Kent station stands its country's longest-serving postbox.

This 19th-century prison once held Irish revolutionary Constance Markievicz, writer Frank O’Connor, and a nine-year-old pickpocket.

An important landmark in the history of algebraic logic.

A stunning medieval castle owned and restored by the famed actor Jeremy Irons.

An oddly conical beacon perched atop beautiful Irish cliffs.

A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine.

This Irish museum in a historic 19th century market pays tribute to the glory of butter.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

The site where the Emperor of Korea performed the long-forbidden "rite of heaven" to demonstrate his absolute sovereignty.