An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

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

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

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

Seventeen oak trees sprout from the roof and walls of this tiny chapel without any visual evidence of roots.

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

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

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

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.

A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.

A magical, if a bit tacky, 1960s castle conjures up medieval fairytales and Greek mythology.

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

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

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

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

A cave network located at the southernmost tip of mainland Greece was once believed to be an entrance to Hades.

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

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