According to local legends, the shallow sandbar that allows visitors to walk across Orhaniye Bay has a tragic backstory.

This mysterious cliffside carving of an ancient Hittite deity has baffled scholars for centuries.

This elevator was built in 1907 to connect two neighborhoods separated by a steep, rocky cliff.

Τhis feline monument commemorates fallen soldiers on a field that saw many, many battles.

According to legend, this cavern holds the passage that Persephone used to travel to and from the underworld.

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

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

This former mill comes to life during the Christmas season.

This Byzantine Church was moved from Paris to Athens block by block.

The ruins of this ancient fortification wall sit in the middle of a quiet, residential intersection.

A closer look at this somewhat faded hotel by the Corinth Canal reveals the architectural undertones of a genius.

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

The nuns here cultivate silk to weave some of the finest scarves in the world.

The Greek War of Independence was declared at this medieval Byzantine sanctuary.

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

Flying high over the small island of Zákynthos is a giant tribute to the mainland.

A solemn reminder of the infamous World War II war crime that massacred almost all the men in a small Greek town.

An islet filled with wooden houses where the open sea meets a lagoon.

Strange rumors surround the artist who created these solemn metal guard dogs.

Meet the oldest inhabitants of this Italian hamlet, a series of oddly preserved mummies.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

This spire on an Austrian mountain is wrapped around a long spiral slide and has the world's tallest wooden observation deck.

This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.