Places slecnave Wants to Go

The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.

Fantastic lake on the heart of a fault line.

An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.

A sacred lake with thousands of sacred carp and a biblical history.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

An ancient church on a tiny island covered in stone bible stories has controversially been turned into a museum.

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

Roman ruins, natural methane fires and a lovely beach.

This Turkish cave boasts some rather bizarre associations with the King of Mount Olympus.

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

Flames have been burning within this mountain for more than 2,500 years.

Ottoman-era houses lovingly preserved.

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

Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

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

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

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

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

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