Tombs of the Kings

No kings, but a spectacular necropolis all the same: a field of monumental underground tombs cut straight into the coastal rock north of Paphos harbour, the grandest dating to the 4th century BC. The best are built like houses for the dead — sunken courtyards ringed by Doric columns, carved from the living stone in imitation of the villas their aristocratic owners lived in. You climb down worn steps into cool, silent chambers while the sea crashes on the rocks just beyond. It shares its UNESCO listing with the mosaics, it's wonderfully atmospheric, and best of all you can clamber right through it rather than peer over a rope.