A site of pagan worship which still attracts people looking for fairies.

This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

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

An artistic melting pot inside an old roadside inn from the Ottoman era.

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

This architecturally eclectic early-20th century mosque was built as a place of worship for the Islamic followers of a Jewish messiah.

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

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

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

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

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

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

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

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

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

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

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

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

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