This small museum once served as a royal hunting pavilion for King Otto Friedrich Ludwig.

An islet filled with wooden houses where the open sea meets a lagoon.

After being destroyed by two separate fires, this monastery is now home to a small zoo and relics from dozens of saints.

This sixth-century church housed an icon with eyes so beautiful legend has it they inspired the name of a Greek city.

This pink watchtower served as the seat of the Greek government after independence from the Turks.

Get hands on with the technological marvels of the Classical world.

The historic building has preserved human organs, unusual hexagrams, and scars from a political assassination.

According to legend, this cavern holds the passage that Persephone used to travel to and from the underworld.

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

Learn about the sweet, storied legacy of beekeeping in ancient Greece.

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’s immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

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

A small island with shimmering pink sands, home to loggerhead turtles and rare plants.

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

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

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

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

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

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

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

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

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

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