Ruins of a 13th-century fortress perched above a breathtaking Mediterranean bay.

This open air archeological site houses almost as much wildlife as it does classical religious artifacts.

A little-known park with unusual, half-ruined structures and a mystical energy.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

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

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

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

This secret coastal village is studded with pastel-colored houses all piled on top of one another.

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.

Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

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

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

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

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