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Poseidon? No one seems to know.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

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.

This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

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

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

A cave network located at the southernmost tip of mainland Greece was once believed to be an entrance to Hades.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

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

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

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

This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.