This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.

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.

This 13th-century monastery chiseled into the side of a mountain is equipped with a bridge that can be lifted to protect against raids.

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

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

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

This secret coastal village is studded with pastel-colored houses all piled on top of one another.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

A little-known park with unusual, half-ruined structures and a mystical energy.

The ruins of this monumental city founded by the first Roman Emperor are strangely overlooked by most travelers.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

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

This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

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

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

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