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The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.

This small chapel holds the mummified heart of one of the heroes of the Greek Revolution.

Legend says it was constructed with the destroyed pillar of an ancient Greek Temple.

These ancient ruins hide in plain sight next to a dessert shop.

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.

A preserved portion of an ancient Athens barrier is displayed in a hotel basement.

A Byzantine-era church hidden in a wooded area below the Acropolis.

A Byzantine church containing the holy remnants of three saints sits atop the site of an ancient temple.

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

There are many Byzantine-era churches still standing in Athens, but this is the only one with a 2,500-year-old column rising through its roof.

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

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

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

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

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

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

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

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

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

On an island south of Iceland, a large volcanic rock formation resembles an elephant.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.