Lasithi, Greece
Spinalonga Island
This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.
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Lasithi, Greece
This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.
Thessaloniki, Greece
A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.
Konitsa, Greece
One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.
Thessaloniki, Greece
A little-known park with unusual, half-ruined structures and a mystical energy.
Preveza, Greece
The ruins of this monumental city founded by the first Roman Emperor are strangely overlooked by most travelers.
Nisi, Greece
Poseidon? No one seems to know.
Athens, Greece
A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.
Laconia, Greece
This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.
Agion Oros, Greece
An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.
Samos Prefecture, Greece
Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.
Pirgi, Greece
This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.
Athens, Greece
The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.
Lemnos, Greece
An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.
Penteli, Greece
Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.
Laconia, Greece
A cave network located at the southernmost tip of mainland Greece was once believed to be an entrance to Hades.
Thessaloniki, Greece
Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.
Mikonos, Greece
Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.
Moires, Greece
Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.
Kato Kastania, Greece
This remarkable cave was discovered after a shepherd watched bees enter and exit through a small fissure.
Sparta, Greece
The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.
Athens, Greece
Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.
Psichro, Greece
According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.
Delos, Greece
Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.
Santorini, Greece
A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.