The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

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.

Learn about the sweet, storied legacy of beekeeping in ancient Greece.

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’s immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.

One of the most photographed locations in the entire city.

One of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe.

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

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

The ruins of this monumental city founded by the first Roman Emperor are strangely overlooked by most travelers.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

This slumbering beast honors the Bavarian soldiers who died in Greece during a 19th-century typhoid outbreak.

Luminaries of all stripes have sipped strong Greek coffee at this cafe since 1839.

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

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

This Greek cinema was architecturally inspired by Mussolini's vision of a fascist Mediterranean utopia.

The alleged vampires after which these islets are named may have actually been plague victims.

This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.