Places remcrae Wants to Go

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.

She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.

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

Over the centuries, this island paradise has done it all, from providing monks with ecclesiastical respite to sheltering an exiled Leon Trotsky.

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

Remnants of successive wars and Muslim colonialism in the 11th century.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

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

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

Ancient Egyptian relief, claimed to depict an electrical light.

This ancient abandoned church in a remote part of Turkey is in danger of falling over.

Unfinished monument to peace between Turkey and Armenia, long divided by a dispute over genocide.

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

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

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

More than 100 monumental tombs carved into rock are preserved at this ancient Nabataean site in the Arabian Desert.

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

A giant bisected onion dome remembers the Iraqis who died in the Iran-Iraq War.

9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.

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.

It might not be the prettiest pyramid in Egypt, but it may be the muddiest.

Egyptian treasure trove of fossils documenting the whale's transition from land mammal to sea creature.