An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

The nuns here cultivate silk to weave some of the finest scarves in the world.

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

This architecturally eclectic early-20th century mosque was built as a place of worship for the Islamic followers of a Jewish messiah.

The Greek island's old British cemetery feels like a forgotten garden.

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

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

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

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

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

Every spring, locals see the shadowy figures of a ghost army of slain Greek soldiers descend upon this ruined fort.

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

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

The secular incarnation of a religious meditation.

A crushed gate and giant bronze head serve as a reminder of Greece's fight for freedom.

Scores of wax baby figurines add an unusual mood to this beautiful church on the Greek coast.

The partially submerged ruins of a white marble quarry used in ancient Greece for over 1,200 years.

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

Built by the Ancient Greeks, this chariot bridge is still in use today.

A lonely medieval monastery on an uninhabited island.

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

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 Greek cinema was architecturally inspired by Mussolini's vision of a fascist Mediterranean utopia.