A carnivorous plant paradise in a serpentine bog.

A museum inside a Byzantine island monastery.

A martyred saint built a nunnery and school for girls here known as the "Parthenon."

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

A former royal garden with lush surroundings in the heart of the city.

This church was constructed on the site where St. Philip the Apostle preached to the ancient Athenians.

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

Elaborate stone houses constructed from the ruins of war.

Scores of wax baby figurines add an unusual mood to this beautiful church on the Greek coast.

This once architecturally advanced housing complex is now a haven for squatters that still bears the scars of war.

One of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe.

A dark, narrow tunnel that leads to a charming lake and waterfall.

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

This abandoned shopping arcade has new life as an art installation.

This secret coastal village is studded with pastel-colored houses all piled on top of one another.

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

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

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

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

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

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

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

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.