Built into Constantinople’s outer walls as a royal Byzantine residence, the Tekfur Palace went on to become a brothel, zoo, and most famously a workshop producing Turkey’s famous painted ceramics.

An ancient city of Lycia, Limyra was once home to the pomp and glory of Egypt, Greece, and Rome before its decline back into a field of grass.

Reduced to little more than a hill, the site of Derbe is far better known for its role in Biblical history and its famous visitors St Paul and St Barnabas.

Once serving as a natural cheese cellar, Karaman’s Incesu Cave is 1.3 kms of galleries and tunnels full of beautiful stalagmites, stalactites, pillars, and travertine pools.

A striking example of medieval Armenian architecture, Surp Tovmas Monastery at Altınsaç is built on a high hilltop overlooking the twisting shores of Lake Van.

Centered on a broad hill filled with ancient temples, fountains, and boulevards, the city of Antioch in Pisidia’s greatest claim to fame comes from its place in Biblical history and its famous visitor: St Paul.

An otherworldly landscape full of prehistoric art, abandoned monasteries, Hittite engravings, castles, and ancient ruins.

Home to five stories of dark passages, rock cut chapels, graveyards, grand halls, and hundreds of granaries cut into the soft stone cliffs.

Ertokuş Caravanserai is a 13th century fortified inn, built by the Seljuks to protect the caravans and aid armies traveling along the vital silk road between the capital of Konya and medieval Antalya.

Burdur’s Incir Han is a 13th century caravanserai built to protect the Seljuk Empire’s Silk Road access to the sea, now in a state of beautiful ruin.