This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

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

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

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

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

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

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

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

When construction began on this hotel, developers were surprised to find the ruins of an ancient civilization.

The only ancient site that remains on the south bank of the sacred Ilissos river.

The ruins of this ancient fortification wall sit in the middle of a quiet, residential intersection.

These caves secretly held national treasures during World War II.

An often overlooked ancient site in downtown Athens with substantial history (and nature).

Preserved portions of Athens's ancient defenses are on display in a subterranean parking garage.

The site where hundreds of Greeks were tortured by the Nazi secret police is now a cosmetics store.

A preserved portion of an ancient Athens barrier is displayed in a hotel basement.

Scars of this building's past life as a violent prison still cover its walls.

A Byzantine-era church hidden in a wooded area below the Acropolis.

The oldest standing Byzantine church in Athens is tucked within a monastery in the middle of an upscale shopping district.

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

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