Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.

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

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

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

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.