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

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

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

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

This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.

The historic tower houses of this nearly abandoned Greek town have been compared to the spikes on an iguana's back.

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

One of the greatest collections of coins in the world is housed in the former mansion of an archeological pioneer.

This 13th-century monastery chiseled into the side of a mountain is equipped with a bridge that can be lifted to protect against raids.

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

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

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

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

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

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

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

This rocky outcrop served as a quarry for some of the bluestones that sit at the center of Stonehenge.

The seaside ruins of an ancient salt production facility.

Picturesque ruins once held off mighty armies.

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

The abandoned fishing village was swept right into the sea.

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.

Artists have long been drawn to these atmospheric 12th-century ruins.

This 15th century pub is one of only two pubs in England situated on consecrated ground.