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

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

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

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

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

This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

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

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

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

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

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