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This small museum once served as a royal hunting pavilion for King Otto Friedrich Ludwig.

This seaside sanctuary was once one of the most important religious sites for women in ancient Greece.

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

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

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

A Byzantine-era church hidden in a wooded area below the Acropolis.

Learn about the sweet, storied legacy of beekeeping in ancient Greece.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’ immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

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.

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

A little-known park with unusual, half-ruined structures and a mystical energy.

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

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

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

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

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

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

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

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.