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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

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

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

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

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

This portion of a lovely Belize beach is infested with (harmless) sharks and rays.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

This statue inspired by Renoir's famous painting embodies the jovial spirit of Key West.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.