The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

You can still find your way around Suzhou with this 800-year-old stone map.

The residence of a Taiwanese literary scholar sits down an alleyway adorned with depictions of snails.

Past the megayachts in the hyper-modern marina of Vouliagmeni is a small, well-hidden chapel adorned with pebbles and maritime imagery.

The Lobotesis family has been baking some of the best savory pies in Athens since 1910.

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

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

A man's head is enshrined beneath a statue near the first building constructed for the modern Olympic Games.

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

Catch raucous live performances of traditional tunes at this old-school taverna.

This church was constructed on the site where St. Philip the Apostle preached to the ancient Athenians.

Luminaries of all stripes have sipped strong Greek coffee at this cafe since 1839.

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

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

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

This abandoned shopping arcade has new life as an art installation.

This Ottoman-era Greek Orthodox Church was built to honor Agia Pareskevi, a Christian saint.

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

There are many Byzantine-era churches still standing in Athens, but this is the only one with a 2,500-year-old column rising through its roof.

These ruins of a sacred Ancient Greek temple stand next to a luxurious modern resort.

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

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

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

The only surviving choragic monument is a trophy awarded in 334 BC for the winning dramatic chorus.