The only surviving choragic monument is a trophy awarded in 334 BC for the winning dramatic chorus.

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

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

These caves secretly held national treasures during World War II.

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

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

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

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

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

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

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

Scars of this building's past life as a violent prison still cover its walls.

This Ottoman-era Greek Orthodox Church was built to honor Agia Pareskevi, a Christian saint.

A tiny Greek Orthodox church from the Ottoman era hides on a busy city street.

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.

An important example of architectural history slowly decays in the city center.

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

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.

Homage to the local produce now serves as a car dealer.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.