A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

This open air archeological site houses almost as much wildlife as it does classical religious artifacts.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

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

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

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

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

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

Mediterranean castle on a tiny Turkish island.

The ancient abodes are a testament to human ingenuity amid harsh climates.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

The world's most remote airport.

In the Middle Ages, villagers would sound this stone trumpet to boost fertility and coax fish to shore.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

This large round boulder is said to emit spiritual power, but it may just be magnets.

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.

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

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

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.