The partially submerged ruins of a white marble quarry used in ancient Greece for over 1,200 years.

The historic building has preserved human organs, unusual hexagrams, and scars from a political assassination.

The nuns here cultivate silk to weave some of the finest scarves in the world.

These ruins of a sacred Ancient Greek temple stand next to a luxurious modern resort.

This smily stone feline is meant to represent a mythical lion that almost destroyed the island of Kea.

These artifacts were discovered during the construction of the airport, with some dating back to the Neolithic period.

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

A preserved portion of an ancient Athens barrier is displayed in a hotel basement.

A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.

This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.

An often overlooked ancient site in downtown Athens with substantial history (and nature).

Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.

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

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

This small museum once served as a royal hunting pavilion for King Otto Friedrich Ludwig.

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

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

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

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

Learn about the sweet, storied legacy of beekeeping in ancient Greece.

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

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’s immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.