This is one of the very few intact windmills built by the Knights of St. John in the island nation of Malta.

These clocks tell time in a theological sense.

These temples are among the oldest free-standing stone buildings in the world.

This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.

This tiny island is recognized as the site where St. Paul landed after a shipwreck in the first century.

Valletta’s outdoor theatre stands within the ruins of a 19th-century opera house.

This church is named for one of the most dramatic tales in the early Christian church.

Overshadowed by other, more famous Maltese catacombs, this ancient burial chamber has one of the best examples of a ritual agape table.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

Malta’s oldest sea water distillation building is now an architectural anomaly on the Sliema waterfront.

This spectacular dome managed to survive after being bombed in World War II, in an event known as the "Miracle of Mosta."

This unique building in the main square stands out among the city's typically Baroque architecture.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A former military hospital is now used to study and preserve artifacts of the Acropolis.

This century-old, family-run bakery specializes in loukoumades, a Greek doughnut once served to ancient Olympians.

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

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

These caves secretly held national treasures during World War II.

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

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

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

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