Psichro, Greece
Dikteon Cave
According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.
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Psichro, Greece
According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.
Delos, Greece
Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.
Santorini, Greece
A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.
Mesopotamos, Greece
Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.
Chios, Greece
Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.
Penteli, Greece
Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.
Moires, Greece
Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.
Berlin, Germany
A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.
Kassel, Germany
A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.
Berlin, Germany
Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.
Berlin, Germany
A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.
Berlin, Germany
The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.
Paris, France
Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.
Amiens, France
Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.
Paris, France
The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.
Paris, France
A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.
Paris, France
The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.
Paris, France
A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.
Peaugres, France
One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.
Paris, France
Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.
Paris, France
This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.
Paris, France
A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Paris, France
Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.