A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

These ruins once flourished as the capital of the Lydian kingdom, often credited with the invention of metal coinage.

This Turkish cave boasts some rather bizarre associations with the King of Mount Olympus.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.

Seven early Christians were sealed into a cave where legend has it they slept unharmed for centuries.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

This mysterious cliffside carving of an ancient Hittite deity has baffled scholars for centuries.

An underground network of massive stone arches and their skylit vaults support ruins of portico structures above.