Akrotiri, Cyprus
Holy Monastery of St. Nicholas of the Cats
For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.
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Akrotiri, Cyprus
For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.
Mersin Province, Turkey
Mediterranean castle on a tiny Turkish island.
Egkomi, Cyprus
This former Cyprus flight hub is now a crumbling, abandoned ghost complex.
Paphos, Cyprus
An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.
Manazan, Turkey
Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.
Demre, Turkey
A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.
Bayatbademleri Köyü, Turkey
Once described as the "Eagle's Nest," this ruined ancient city rests on a remote mountaintop.
Istanbul, Turkey
The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.
Çumra, Turkey
The largest Neolithic ruins in the world hide a notably clean prehistoric metropolis.
Prague, Czechia
Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.
Thessaloniki, Greece
This architecturally eclectic early-20th century mosque was built as a place of worship for the Islamic followers of a Jewish messiah.
Laconia, Greece
The historic tower houses of this nearly abandoned Greek town have been compared to the spikes on an iguana's back.
Athens, Greece
This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.
Volos, Greece
This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.
Dion, Greece
This open air archeological site houses almost as much wildlife as it does classical religious artifacts.
Athens, Greece
Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.
Laconia, Greece
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.
Athens, Greece
Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.
Lemnos, Greece
An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.
Heraklion, Greece
This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.
Agion Oros, Greece
An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.
Thessaloniki, Greece
Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.
Chios, Greece
An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.
Samos Prefecture, Greece
Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.