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

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

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

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

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

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

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

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

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

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

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

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

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

A man's head is enshrined beneath a statue near the first building constructed for the modern Olympic Games.

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