Greece is home to some of the oldest known structures in the world. Tourists flock from around the world to visit ruins of once glorious places like the Acropolis or Epidaurus and marvel at an ancient civilization.
But modern Greece now has its own ruins. The country's recent default on the $1.8 billion International Monetary Fund loan caps off years of a faltering economy that has resulted in a 25% unemployment rate, leaving dozens of manufacturing facilities around the country abandoned.
Factories producing everything from textiles to cooking oil, steel mills to marble manufacturing, have been left to erode. One can imagine future tourists walking through cotton spinning mills overrun by a poppy field, stopping to take an Instagram photo of the buildings' rusted out husks.
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