This mundane post marks the old location of the city's main postal hub.

The dance of this huge clock is a magnificent and eerie commentary on good and evil in the history of humankind.

This 16th-century house tells the city's history through old artifacts and quirky tales.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

Overlooked by many, the two famous Scottish warriors guard the main gate of Edinburgh Castle.

The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.

A menacing statue of this mythical creature can be seen at the legendary site of the monster's lair.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

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

This smily stone feline is meant to represent a mythical lion that almost destroyed the island of Kea.

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

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

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

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

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

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.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.