This beehive tomb built for royalty sat hidden for over 3,000 years.

These ruins of a sacred Ancient Greek temple stand next to a luxurious modern resort.

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

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

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

A magical, if a bit tacky, 1960s castle conjures up medieval fairytales and Greek mythology.

This smily stone feline is meant to represent a mythical lion that almost destroyed the island of Kea.

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

Ruins of a 13th-century fortress perched above a breathtaking Mediterranean bay.

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

The abandoned summer estate of the former Greek Royal Family.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

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

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

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

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

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

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.