Saint-Pierre-Colamine, France
Jonas Caves
A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.
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Saint-Pierre-Colamine, France
A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.
Saint-Geniez-ô-Merle, France
Explore an eerie, abandoned medieval citadel.
Cahors, France
A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.
Montignac, France
Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."
Portugalete, Spain
Two towns are linked by an engineering marvel masquerading as a boring suspension bridge.
Fábrica de Orbaitzeta, Spain
Abandoned 18th century weapons factory in the Aezkoa Valley.
Etsaut, France
This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.
Canfranc, Spain
Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.
Jaca, Spain
This religious complex carved into a cliff is steeped in legends of miraculous stags and the Holy Grail.
Jaca, Spain
32,000 tiny soldiers are posed in 23 historical settings.
Berrioplano, Spain
This huge abandoned fortress hidden inside a mountain holds a world of subterranean secrets.
Estella, Spain
A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.
Sigüés, Spain
A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.
Meung-sur-Loire, France
A painted medieval castle where the most celebrated outlaw-poet of the Middle Ages was imprisoned — and where you can descend into his exact cell, nine centuries later.
Blois, France
A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.
Montrichard Val de Cher, France
Miles of man-made caves and tunnels are currently used for cultivating mushrooms.
Tours, France
This museum preserves over-the-top masterpieces that once qualified artisans for membership into a medieval guild.
Manazan, Turkey
Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.
Aksaray, Turkey
In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.
Özkonak Belediyesi, Turkey
This ancient subterranean megalopolis is known for the hot oil traps that were installed above each of its entrances.
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.
Mudurnu, Turkey
The only residents of this abandoned housing development full of identical castles are stray cats and dogs.