Places grantavery Wants to Go

Built by the Ancient Greeks, this chariot bridge is still in use today.

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

The oldest standing Byzantine church in Athens is tucked within a monastery in the middle of an upscale shopping district.

According to legend, this cavern holds the passage that Persephone used to travel to and from the underworld.

This architecturally eclectic early-20th century mosque was built as a place of worship for the Islamic followers of a Jewish messiah.

This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.

This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

The historic tower houses of this nearly abandoned Greek town have been compared to the spikes on an iguana's back.

Ruins of a 13th-century fortress perched above a breathtaking Mediterranean bay.

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

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

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

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

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

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

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

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

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.