Places We All Pod Down Here Wants to Go

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

This black sand beach was crafted from volcanic explosions including the historic Minoan eruption.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

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

This building displays the scars of the “Dekemvriana,” a dark time in modern Greek history.

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

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

According to legend, this ancient column contains healing properties.

After a catastrophic forest fire, a Greek artist transformed scorched tree trunks outside an old sanatorium into this haunting sculpture garden.

These caves secretly held national treasures during World War II.

This historic structure has been used as a mosque, a barracks, a prison, a school, and a bakery.

A crushed gate and giant bronze head serve as a reminder of Greece's fight for freedom.

This graffitied 19th-century building was a prototype of European industrial architecture.

The site where hundreds of Greeks were tortured by the Nazi secret police is now a cosmetics store.

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

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

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