Legend says squeezing into this slender stone seat will make your wish come true.

This historic castle was already in ruins by the 13th century.

The recreated ruins of a house designed to memorialize a World War I shelling on the town.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

A small museum built by a family that survived the Siege of Sarajevo.

This tiny traditional smokehouse is the only one left in this historic fishing port.

A monument to the real explorer and bear who inspired characters in Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'

These carved, weathered stones once gave mail carriers and pub goers a leg up.

This Ottoman bridge is a rare covered bridge with shops, and considers itself the only bazaar bridge in the world.

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

One of the newest mosques in a city filled with thousands.

This historic hotel preserves many treasures from its heyday hosting passengers on the Orient Express.

The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.

A surprising and unconventional mosque hidden in the subsoil of Istanbul.

A sixth-century Byzantine cistern hidden below a modern carpet store.

Liechtenstein's royal family calls this medieval alpine castle home.

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

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

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

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.

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.

This church houses the tomb—but not the remains—of St. Nicholas, the likely progenitor to Santa Claus.

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