The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

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

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

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

The ruins of this monumental city founded by the first Roman Emperor are strangely overlooked by most travelers.

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

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

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

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

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

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

The ruins of an ancient Roman tomb hidden in the basement of a trendy clothing store.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

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

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

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

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

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

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

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

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