A crushed gate and giant bronze head serve as a reminder of Greece's fight for freedom.

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

The partially submerged ruins of a white marble quarry used in ancient Greece for over 1,200 years.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

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

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

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

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

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.

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

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

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

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

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

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