This slumbering beast honors the Bavarian soldiers who died in Greece during a 19th-century typhoid outbreak.

Step inside an ancient beehive tomb built for a mysterious cult hero.

The secular incarnation of a religious meditation.

Built by the Ancient Greeks, this chariot bridge is still in use today.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

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

A solemn reminder of the infamous World War II war crime that massacred almost all the men in a small Greek town.

An islet filled with wooden houses where the open sea meets a lagoon.

Get hands on with the technological marvels of the Classical world.

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

This quaint farm in the Peloponnese countryside hides an astonishing cache of antique curiosities.

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

The top of the holy mountain for the ancient Spartans looks like a pyramid—is it man-made or a natural phenomenon?

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

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

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

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

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.