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

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.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.

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

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

Seventeen oak trees sprout from the roof and walls of this tiny chapel without any visual evidence of roots.

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

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

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.

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

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

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

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

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

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

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