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This open air archeological site houses almost as much wildlife as it does classical religious artifacts.

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

View the ancient remains of buildings and the ancient "River of Hades" before hopping on a train.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

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

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

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

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

Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

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

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

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

A man's head is enshrined beneath a statue near the first building constructed for the modern Olympic Games.

Seventeen oak trees sprout from the roof and walls of this tiny chapel without any visual evidence of roots.

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

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

These caves secretly held national treasures during World War II.

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

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

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

This 13th-century monastery chiseled into the side of a mountain is equipped with a bridge that can be lifted to protect against raids.

After a catastrophic forest fire, a Greek artist transformed scorched tree trunks outside an old sanatorium into this haunting sculpture garden.

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