1,500 Commonwealth servicemen of World War II are buried or commemorated in this cemetery.

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

This Greek cinema was architecturally inspired by Mussolini's vision of a fascist Mediterranean utopia.

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

This smily stone feline is meant to represent a mythical lion that almost destroyed the island of Kea.

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

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

The abandoned summer estate of the former Greek Royal Family.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

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.

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

Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.

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

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

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

A Byzantine church containing the holy remnants of three saints sits atop the site of an ancient temple.

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

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

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

A crushed gate and giant bronze head serve as a reminder of Greece's fight for freedom.

This graffitied 19th-century building was a prototype of European industrial architecture.