Istanbul, Turkey
Hagia Sophia Wishing Column
Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.
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Istanbul, Turkey
Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.
Athens, Greece
The only surviving choragic monument is a trophy awarded in 334 BC for the winning dramatic chorus.
Athens, Greece
A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.
Athens, Greece
Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.
Athens, Greece
An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.
Thira, Greece
A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.
Santorini, Greece
A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Greece
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
Kalabaka, Greece
Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.
Manchester, England
The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.
Manchester, England
Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.
Manchester, England
Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.
Manchester, England
Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.