Places megankass Wants to Go

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

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

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

Local lore says two enemy dragons live within these breathtaking mountain lakes.

The ruins of an ancient Roman tomb hidden in the basement of a trendy clothing store.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

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

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

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

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

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

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

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

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

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

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

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

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

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

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

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