A small island with shimmering pink sands, home to loggerhead turtles and rare plants.

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

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

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

Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.

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

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

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

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

This graffitied 19th-century building was a prototype of European industrial architecture.

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

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

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

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

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.