The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

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

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

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

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

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

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