This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

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

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

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

The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

A cave network located at the southernmost tip of mainland Greece was once believed to be an entrance to Hades.

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

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

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

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

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

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

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

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

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.