150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

The Lobotesis family has been baking some of the best savory pies in Athens since 1910.

One of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe.

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

An intricate network of underground tombs carved into volcanic rock.

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

A dark, narrow tunnel that leads to a charming lake and waterfall.

A magical, if a bit tacky, 1960s castle conjures up medieval fairytales and Greek mythology.

The site where hundreds of Greeks were tortured by the Nazi secret police is now a cosmetics store.

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

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

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

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

This secret coastal village is studded with pastel-colored houses all piled on top of one another.

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.

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

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

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

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

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

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.