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

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.

Mediterranean castle on a tiny Turkish island.

The most metal church of all time was built in record time because of an international, pious pissing contest.

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

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

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

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

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

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

Every spring, locals see the shadowy figures of a ghost army of slain Greek soldiers descend upon this ruined fort.

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

Despite being pillaged and destroyed a number over times down the centuries, this historic church still sort of stands.

A grand Yugoslav memorial to the group of partisans who fought and died resisting western Serbia’s Nazi occupation.