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

Every spring, locals see the shadowy figures of a ghost army of slain Greek soldiers descend upon this ruined fort.

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

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

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

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

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

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

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

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

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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