Athens, Greece
Magic Sphere of Helios
This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.
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Athens, Greece
This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.
Athens, Greece
This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Argolis, Greece
This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.
Andros, Greece
Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.
Athens, Greece
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
Greece
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
Athens, Greece
A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.
Mikonos, Greece
Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.
Sparta, Greece
The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.
Psichro, Greece
According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.
Mesopotamos, Greece
Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.
Kato Kastania, Greece
This remarkable cave was discovered after a shepherd watched bees enter and exit through a small fissure.
Moires, Greece
Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.
Athens, Greece
An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.
Heraklion, Greece
This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.
Thessaloniki, Greece
This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.
Athens, Greece
Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.
Pirgi, Greece
This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.
Athens, Greece
This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.
Rhodes, Greece
Learn about the sweet, storied legacy of beekeeping in ancient Greece.
Dion, Greece
This open air archeological site houses almost as much wildlife as it does classical religious artifacts.
Spetses, Greece
Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.
Naxos, Greece
This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.