Athens — Sights
The Parthenon overhead, a souvlaki in hand.
- Acropolis & Parthenon — Standing under 2,400-year-old marble columns
- Acropolis Museum — Ruins under a glass floor, Parthenon sculptures on top
- Ancient Agora & Temple of Hephaestus — Socrates' old square and a temple with its roof still on
- Roman Agora & Hadrian's Library — A Roman wind clock and emperor's library amid the market lanes
- Plaka — Bougainvillea stairways by day, taverna lights by night
- Monastiraki Square & Flea Market — Acropolis view from the metro exit, junk stalls on Sundays
- Anafiotika — A Cycladic island village tucked under the Acropolis
- Temple of Olympian Zeus & Hadrian's Arch — Seven centuries to build, fifteen columns left
- Panathenaic Stadium — The all-marble stadium of the first modern Olympics
- Changing of the Guard at Syntagma — Pom-pom shoes and slow-motion high kicks, every hour
- National Archaeological Museum — From the Mask of Agamemnon to bronzes pulled from the sea
- Lycabettus Hill at Sunset — The city's highest point, the Acropolis glowing at dusk
- Areopagus Hill — A free rock with a front-row view of the Acropolis
- Cape Sounion & Temple of Poseidon — Aegean sunset through white columns on a cliff edge
- Delphi Day Trip — The mountain oracle the ancients called the navel of the world
- Benaki Museum of Greek Culture — Greek history, antiquity to modern, under one roof
- Museum of Cycladic Art — The white marble faces Picasso admired
- Kerameikos Archaeological Site — A quiet ancient cemetery with resident tortoises
- Philopappos Hill — Free sunset hill facing the Parthenon
- National Garden — Palm shade and a duck pond mid-city
- Zappeion Hall & Gardens — A neoclassical hall in a garden for evening strolls
- Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center — An artificial hill with sea and Acropolis views
- Byzantine and Christian Museum — Icons and mosaics in a garden courtyard building
- Benaki Museum of Islamic Art — Ottoman and Islamic crafts, rarely crowded
- Lake Vouliagmeni — Swim in a thermal lake ringed by cliffs