This arch granting triumphal entrance into Antalya was designed to honor the emperor's visit.

An underground network of massive stone arches and their skylit vaults support ruins of portico structures above.

Balanced on four stone pillars, this historic tower was the site of a tragic political assassination.

Climb a set of vertiginous stone steps to the top of this impressive ancient edifice.

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.

These ruins once flourished as the capital of the Lydian kingdom, often credited with the invention of metal coinage.

The home-turned-museum of Barış Manço, the mustachioed Turkish Elvis for children.

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

This former Imperial summer home was the venue for a royal slap that once echoed 'round the world.

This ancient city - home to nine civilizations - is soon to be buried under 200 feet of water.

Mediterranean castle on a tiny Turkish island.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

Large miniature theme park with 100-plus models.

A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.

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

This unusual building straddles two countries.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, VT.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A tiny park in the middle of some big power politics.

A small mountain at the crossroads of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria that some believe was the landing point of Noah's Ark.