Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

These abandoned salt flats are now a haven for wildlife.

This seaside sanctuary was once one of the most important religious sites for women in ancient Greece.

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

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

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

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

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

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

This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.

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

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

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

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

This open air archeological site houses almost as much wildlife as it does classical religious artifacts.

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

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.

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

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

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

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

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