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

The site where hundreds of Greeks were tortured by the Nazi secret police is now a cosmetics store.

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

These ruins of a sacred Ancient Greek temple stand next to a luxurious modern resort.

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

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

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

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

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

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

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

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

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

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

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

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

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

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

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

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

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.