Ancient serpentine sacrifice holder that has stood the test of time.

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

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

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

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

A crushed gate and giant bronze head serve as a reminder of Greece's fight for freedom.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

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

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

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

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

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

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

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

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

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

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

The temple that withstood the Nazis.

This tiny Bulgarian town offers a stunning location in the mountains and a storied history.

Once the largest rope factory in Greece, this abandoned plant now stands like a ghost of industry past.