Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

Since 1969, this restaurant has served up dishes typical of Istanbul's Greek diaspora.

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

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

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.

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

An intricate network of underground tombs carved into volcanic rock.

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

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