Local lore says two enemy dragons live within these breathtaking mountain lakes.

This 13th-century monastery chiseled into the side of a mountain is equipped with a bridge that can be lifted to protect against raids.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

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

Once the largest rope factory in Greece, this abandoned plant now stands like a ghost of industry past.

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

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.

The abandoned summer estate of the former Greek Royal Family.

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

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

This church combines Christian, Byzantine, and ancient Greek architectural elements.

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

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

This remarkable cave was discovered after a shepherd watched bees enter and exit through a small fissure.

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

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

The historic tower houses of this nearly abandoned Greek town have been compared to the spikes on an iguana's back.

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

A magical, if a bit tacky, 1960s castle conjures up medieval fairytales and Greek mythology.