Athens, Greece
Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art
Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.
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Athens, Greece
Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.
Nafplio, Greece
This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.
Heraklion, Greece
This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.
Thessaloniki, Greece
This architecturally eclectic early-20th century mosque was built as a place of worship for the Islamic followers of a Jewish messiah.
Thessaloniki, Greece
A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Athens, Greece
150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.
Heraklion, Greece
A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.
Athens, Greece
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
Argolis, Greece
This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.
Zakinthos, Greece
Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.
Greece
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
Kalabaka, Greece
Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.
Dresden, Germany
Silent memorial, using bone conduction to take people back to the Dresden Bombing of 1945.
Dresden, Germany
Joe Cocker's 1988 concert at this site in East Germany marked a changing sea tide that would eventually lead to reunification.
Frankfurt, Germany
This German fountain of a legendary apple wine-loving drink thief will spit on you.
Berlin, Germany
Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.
Dresden, Germany
Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.
Berlin, Germany
One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.
Berlin, Germany
Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.
Berlin, Germany
The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.
Regensburg, Germany
From Ancient Rome to WWII, Neupfarrplatz has over 2,000 years of history underneath its main square.
Berlin, Germany
Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.