This pink watchtower served as the seat of the Greek government after independence from the Turks.

This 11th-century Greek monastery has renowned mosaics and relics of a brutal past.

This "volcanic all-day restaurant" is right on the beach.

There are many Byzantine-era churches still standing in Athens, but this is the only one with a 2,500-year-old column rising through its roof.

This smily stone feline is meant to represent a mythical lion that almost destroyed the island of Kea.

This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.

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

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

The abandoned summer estate of the former Greek Royal Family.

This seaside sanctuary was once one of the most important religious sites for women in ancient Greece.

Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.

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

This small museum once served as a royal hunting pavilion for King Otto Friedrich Ludwig.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

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

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

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

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

Seventeen oak trees sprout from the roof and walls of this tiny chapel without any visual evidence of roots.

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

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

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

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

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