Kaymaklı Belediyesi, Turkey
Kaymaklı Underground City
While not Turkey's deepest underground city, this subterranean redoubt is the largest.
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Kaymaklı Belediyesi, Turkey
While not Turkey's deepest underground city, this subterranean redoubt is the largest.
Derinkuyu, Turkey
The deepest underground city in Turkey was designed to protect 20,000 people behind massive stone doors.
Aksaray, Turkey
In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.
Denizli, Turkey
Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.
Çanakkale, Turkey
This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.
England
No one is sure what to do with this WWII shipwreck that sits at the bottom of the Thames, still loaded with tons of explosives.
Southend-on-Sea, England
This charming, narrow-gauge railway in the Thames Estuary is sometimes referred to as the "Train to Nowhere."
London, England
The grounds of this Jacobean estate contain one of the oldest mulberry trees in England.
Heckington, England
The last working windmill in the U.K. that has eight sails.
Rothwell, England
Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.
Milton Keynes, England
Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.
Lincoln, England
The oldest of the three remaining bridges in England with buildings on top of them.
Lincoln, England
The world's first military tank was designed in this English city amid the stalemate of WWI trench warfare.
Knaresborough, England
A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.
York, England
The little-known second castle that William the Conqueror built in York.
Harrogate, England
The last fully working Victorian Turkish bath in England.
York, England
A Reformation-era fiery figurehead once denoted this location as a print shop.
York, England
Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.
York, England
Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.
Malton, England
A deserted medieval village where bodies were once mutilated to prevent them rising from the dead.
Rowde, England
This section of the Kennet and Avon Canal has been designated the same level of heritage protection as Stonehenge.
Winchester, England
A rare labyrinth-style path carved into a historic hill.
West Sussex, England
This multicolored meandering masterpiece is Britain's longest bench.
Inverkeithing, Scotland
A remarkable feat of Victorian engineering across the Firth of Forth.