Places amywc1984 Wants to Go

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

The deepest underground city in Turkey was designed to protect 20,000 people behind massive stone doors.

While not Turkey's deepest underground city, this subterranean redoubt is the largest.

One of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe.

A Christian pilgrimage site that may have also been a temple for the Greek goddess of love.

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

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

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

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

This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.

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

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

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

At this ancient settlement at the foot of Mount Babadağ, honeycomb tombs are carved into a round cliff.

A mysterious ancient cemetery with Roman sarcophagi and Lycian inscriptions.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

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

Roman ruins, natural methane fires and a lovely beach.

Flames have been burning within this mountain for more than 2,500 years.

This arch granting triumphal entrance into Antalya was designed to honor the emperor's visit.

The best-preserved ancient theater in the world.

Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

The world's largest monastic library is also a baroque artistic masterpiece