Resting place and mausoleum of the founder and first president of Turkey.

The legendary wooden horse that stands in modern Troy is a prop from the 2004 Wolfgang Petersen film.

A former salt mine is now a cool picnic spot for families and asthmatics.

Come for the whole sides of slow-roasted lamb, stay for the regional Kurdish specialties.

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

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

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

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

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 best-preserved ancient theater in the world.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

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

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

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

Despite monuments in other locations, this spot in a South Dakota field is recognized by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey as the center of the 50 states.

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.

This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

These cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.