With no menu and no sign, this 130-year-old taverna doles out affordable home cooking.

The ruins of this ancient fortification wall sit in the middle of a quiet, residential intersection.

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

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

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

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

This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.

One of the best collections of Byzantine art housed in a magnificent, 19th-century neoclassical home.

Savor sheep milk yogurt at the last of Athens' dairy bars.

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

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

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

This small museum once served as a royal hunting pavilion for King Otto Friedrich Ludwig.

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

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

Luminaries of all stripes have sipped strong Greek coffee at this cafe since 1839.

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

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

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

This church was constructed on the site where St. Philip the Apostle preached to the ancient Athenians.

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.

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