An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

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

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

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

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

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

The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.

Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

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

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

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

This remarkable cave was discovered after a shepherd watched bees enter and exit through a small fissure.

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

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

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

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.