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UNESCO-protected ancient burial ground.

The site of many battles and tragedies, including the 40 maidens who leapt into the sea.

In a long-dry lake bed, these groups of massive stone pillars bear a striking resemblance to clumps of everyone's favorite fungi.

This historic black and white monastery is one of Bulgaria's architectural jewels.

An ancient Thracian city where fire rituals were practiced on the largest cult altar in Southeast Europe.

Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.

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

This ancient city—home to nine civilizations—is soon to be buried under 200 feet of water.

A mysterious ancient cemetery with Roman sarcophagi and Lycian inscriptions.

An ancient church on a tiny island covered in stone bible stories has controversially been turned into a museum.

Standing proud atop a Turkish bluff, this Ottoman palace has retained its grandeur despite being abandoned for centuries.

The largest Neolithic ruins in the world hide a notably clean prehistoric metropolis.

Mausoleum and Holy Seat of Antiochus I of Commagene.

A Turkish monastery tucked into a cliff wall.

Once described as the "Eagle's Nest," this ruined ancient city rests on a remote mountaintop.

Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

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

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

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