Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Underneath one of the region's most historic roads lies the home of Plato's successor.

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

According to legend, this ancient column contains healing properties.

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

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

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

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

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

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

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

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

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

Public water fountains built during the Ottoman Era still stand throughout this seaside town.

This church is dedicated to the patron saint of seafarers.

A staircase made of gravestones leads up to this church built into a giant rock.

This 18th-century former mosque held the first Hellenic Parliament.

The historic building has preserved human organs, unusual hexagrams, and scars from a political assassination.

This slumbering beast honors the Bavarian soldiers who died in Greece during a 19th-century typhoid outbreak.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.