What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

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.

The ruins of this monumental city founded by the first Roman Emperor are strangely overlooked by most travelers.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

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

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.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

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

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

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

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

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

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

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

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

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

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