A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

An artistic melting pot inside an old roadside inn from the Ottoman era.

A little-known park with unusual, half-ruined structures and a mystical energy.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

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

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

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

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

A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

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

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

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

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

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.

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.

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.

This once architecturally advanced housing complex is now a haven for squatters that still bears the scars of war.

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

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