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

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

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

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

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

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

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

A century-old church is now a space museum with a treasure trove of Soviet space items.

This unique Lady Liberty is one of the only examples of the figure sitting down.

The haunting complex honors the millions of Ukrainians who died in the forced famine under Soviet rule.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

Ukraine's oldest operating pharmacy now offers guests a fascinating walk through apothecary history.

The ruins of an abandoned church loom within a picturesque Ukranian village.

A subterranean Holocaust refuge within one of the world's longest cave systems.

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.