A collection of ornate palace-like complexes cut into the Cappadocian landscape, Açıksaray (Open Palace) is a little visited site perfect for adventure.

Fed by the rain and snow falling on the nearby Kaçkar Mountains, Rize’s Palovit Waterfall is beautiful waterfall plunging in a canyon of lush green.

The Town of Döğer is home to a 15th century Ottoman Caravanserai, a Phrygian settlement carved into a natural tower of rock, and the fairy chimney rock formations of the Phrygian Valley.

The most ruinous of the three great monasteries of the Maçka region, Kuştul Monastery is still a stunning site, capping a sheer-sided rocky outcropping above a lush green valley.

In an area best known for its Greco-Roman history, Korkuteli is a small town with the remains of the grand Alaaddin Keykubat Seljuk Mosque and Madrasah

A strange little castle and church with an oversized Ottoman mansion built directly on top overlooking the quiet beaches and picturesque harbour of Bolaman and the Black Sea coast.

Built some 800-1000 years ago the Historic Talazan Bridge is an eight-span peaked bridge of bright limestone in the traditional style of the Seljuks.

The oldest of the three Greek monasteries of the Maçka region, Vazelon Monastery is a stunning complex set high in the Black Sea mountains.

Yılankale is one of the best preserved medieval castles in a region where Armenians, Crusaders, Seljuks, and Ottomans vied for control over this strategic crossroad.

One of the iconic sights of the Black Sea, the stone bridges of the Fırtına Stream leap gracefully from bank to bank surrounded by the lushness of Rize.