An islet filled with wooden houses where the open sea meets a lagoon.

This ancient structure appears Roman, but was constructed during the 16th century and was utilized until 1911.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

The nuns here cultivate silk to weave some of the finest scarves in the world.

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

This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.

Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.

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

This 13th-century monastery chiseled into the side of a mountain is equipped with a bridge that can be lifted to protect against raids.

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

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’s immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.

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.

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

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

Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

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

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

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

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

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

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