Turkish adventurer antiques in the heart of the Grand Bazaar.

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

A passage grave used in neolithic rituals.

A Byzantine church containing the holy remnants of three saints sits atop the site of an ancient temple.

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

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

This architecturally eclectic early-20th century mosque was built as a place of worship for the Islamic followers of a Jewish messiah.

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

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

This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

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

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

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

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

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

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

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

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