The secular incarnation of a religious meditation.

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

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

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

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

Local lore says two enemy dragons live within these breathtaking mountain lakes.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

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

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

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

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

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

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.

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

This 15th-century church houses priceless works of art from a range of Croatian artists.

Inside this mansion turned museum, the works of prominent Croatian artists are on full display.

This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.

Gargoyle head that brings good luck.