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Public water fountains built during the Ottoman Era still stand throughout this seaside town.

The historic building has preserved human organs, unusual hexagrams, and scars from a political assassination.

This church is dedicated to the patron saint of seafarers.

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

Step inside an ancient beehive tomb built for a mysterious cult hero.

The top of the holy mountain for the ancient Spartans looks like a pyramid—is it man-made or a natural phenomenon?

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

Overlooked archeological site close to the city of Patras.

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

Believed to be the only Orthodox church in the world that features a free-standing pulpit.

This slumbering beast honors the Bavarian soldiers who died in Greece during a 19th-century typhoid outbreak.

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

Dedicated to the god Dionysus, this theatre was used for both musical and theatrical performances.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

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.

After being destroyed by two separate fires, this monastery is now home to a small zoo and relics from dozens of saints.

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

This sanctuary became synonymous with fear and terror in the ancient world.

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

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

An intricate network of underground tombs carved into volcanic rock.

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