This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.

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.

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

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

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

At this rare mosque in Tbilisi, Sunni and Shia Muslims pray side by side.

Dynamite factory turned museum explores the history of explosives.

This Torino museum honors a soldier who kept the city safe using barrels of exploding gunpowder, losing his life in the process.

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

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.

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

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.