The alleged vampires after which these islets are named may have actually been plague victims.

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

This 11th-century Greek monastery has renowned mosaics and relics of a brutal past.

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

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

This "volcanic all-day restaurant" is right on the beach.

An intricate network of underground tombs carved into volcanic rock.

A former factory serves as a shrine to the industry that sustained Santorini for decades.

Every spring, locals see the shadowy figures of a ghost army of slain Greek soldiers descend upon this ruined fort.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

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

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

This black sand beach was crafted from volcanic explosions including the historic Minoan eruption.

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

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

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

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

A small island with shimmering pink sands, home to loggerhead turtles and rare plants.

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

The lost library of Alexandria, revived as a spearhead of cultural preservation.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

A huge museum of much more than just agriculture displayed in a princess's palace.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.