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

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

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

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

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

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

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

William Smith's iconic "map that changed the world" is hidden behind a curtain in the Geological Society building.

This mysterious and unique painting is filled with symbolism.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

A harbor town pays tribute to a heroic wartime carrier pigeon.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

The lake that fills and empties itself at random.

A memorial to a goat culled during a foot and mouth disease outbreak guards a series of fantastical caves.

This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.