Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

Depending on the region's rainfall, this church may be partially submerged.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.

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

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

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

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

It's unclear what caused the fire that led to this opulent hotel's demise.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

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

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

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

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

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

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

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

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

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

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.