Places remcrae Wants to Go

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

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

Only a handful of these gorgeous historic waterwheels remain but even those are in danger from local unrest.

A 1,500-year-old ghost settlement is slowly fading away.

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

A Turkish monastery tucked into a cliff wall.

Ottoman-era houses lovingly preserved.

What is left of the pillar of Saint Simeon, the voluntary martyr who climbed the column to give his sermons, remaining perched there for thirty-seven years.

Mausoleum and Holy Seat of Antiochus I of Commagene.

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

Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.

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.

This ancient subterranean megalopolis is known for the hot oil traps that were installed above each of its entrances.

Lebanon's highest point offers expansive views, martian terrains, and eerie ski lifts.

After this one-of-a-kind palace was built the architect's hands are said to have been cut off to keep it that way.

The largest hewn stone in history.

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

Sex curse discovered on ancient tablet in Cyprus.

Neither bomb blasts nor heartbeats escape the giant ears of this super sci-fi Arctic outpost.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.