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

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

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

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

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

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

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

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

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

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

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

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

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

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

This tree was extinct for a thousand years before sprouting again from a 2,000-year-old seed.

A massive, heart-shaped, wind-carved crater in the middle of the Israeli desert.

The bluer than blue waters in these natural Israeli caves are reached via the world's steepest cable car.

These numerous Israeli caves were dug out over hundreds years for reasons ranging from hideouts to burial sites.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.

Modern museum, designed for Jihadi tourists.

The world's oldest map of the holy land gives us a fragmented glimpse of the layout of biblical nations.