Live a night as a Byzantine King, with a minibar and private jacuzzi.

This abandoned church was the site of one of the biggest art heists of the past decades.

The animals wander freely amid this gorgeous stretch of nature.

The water here is so clear you can see the mysteriously sunken ship from the surface.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

The largest caravanserai in Cyprus also includes amazing examples of Ottoman architecture.

The ruins of a fairytale castle with a tumultuous history stand high atop the mountains.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.

The best-preserved ancient theater in the world.

Scores of wax baby figurines add an unusual mood to this beautiful church on the Greek coast.

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

A mysterious ancient cemetery with Roman sarcophagi and Lycian inscriptions.

One of the most exquisite Lycian hilltop citadels in Turkey.

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

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

At this ancient settlement at the foot of Mount Babadağ, honeycomb tombs are carved into a round cliff.

According to local legends, the shallow sandbar that allows visitors to walk across Orhaniye Bay has a tragic backstory.

This beautiful train graveyard is one of the largest collections of steam locomotives in the Mediterranean and Europe.

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

One of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe.

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

There are many Byzantine-era churches still standing in Athens, but this is the only one with a 2,500-year-old column rising through its roof.

According to legend, this cavern holds the passage that Persephone used to travel to and from the underworld.