Elaborate stone houses constructed from the ruins of war.

Preserved portions of Athens's ancient defenses are on display in a subterranean parking garage.

Tear apart fatty, gently charred lamb chops with your bare hands.

A former military hospital is now used to study and preserve artifacts of the Acropolis.

A unique housing complex born from the aftermath of the Greek Civil War.

This Ottoman-era church is hidden amid a busy tourist area.

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.

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

This once architecturally advanced housing complex is now a haven for squatters that still bears the scars of war.

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

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

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

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

The oldest standing Byzantine church in Athens is tucked within a monastery in the middle of an upscale shopping district.

A letterpress workshop committed to the art of printing, with unique and creative designs.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.