For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

Mediterranean castle on a tiny Turkish island.

This former Cyprus flight hub is now a crumbling, abandoned ghost complex.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.

Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

Once described as the "Eagle's Nest," this ruined ancient city rests on a remote mountaintop.

The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.

The largest Neolithic ruins in the world hide a notably clean prehistoric metropolis.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

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

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

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.

This open air archeological site houses almost as much wildlife as it does classical religious artifacts.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

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.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

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

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

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