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

The cross-shaped memorial is filled with kitschy tributes to the late pop star.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

St. John the Baptist's forearm is housed in this remote 11th-century monastery.

These abundant, over-the-top monuments are so widely scattered that they define the entire compact capital cityscape, often leading to jokes about whether there are more statues than residents.

After a catastrophic forest fire, a Greek artist transformed scorched tree trunks outside an old sanatorium into this haunting sculpture garden.

According to legend, this cavern holds the passage that Persephone used to travel to and from the underworld.

Only open for two days a year, this church links ancient Greek and modern Christian celebrations.

A tiny Greek Orthodox church from the Ottoman era hides on a busy city street.

Savor sheep milk yogurt at the last of Athens' dairy bars.

A unique housing complex born from the aftermath of the Greek Civil War.

Elaborate stone houses constructed from the ruins of war.

The ruins of this ancient fortification wall sit in the middle of a quiet, residential intersection.

View the ancient remains of buildings and the ancient "River of Hades" before hopping on a train.

Tear apart fatty, gently charred lamb chops with your bare hands.

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

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

A memorial dedicated to a tragic event during the Axis occupation of Greece.

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

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

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

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

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

The oldest standing Byzantine church in Athens is tucked within a monastery in the middle of an upscale shopping district.