THE UNDERGROUND APARTMENT

Cappadocia, Turkey

The area of Cappadocia, Turkey, has become famous for its underground cities—most notably the underground city of Derinkuyu. It consisted of seven underground levels and is said to have housed residents in the thousands. This was not a small city and it was not a series of small cave homes either. Throughout Derinkuyu were shops and churches, areas in which the residents produced wine, and even schools. The underground cities are believed to have been hiding places for Christians avoiding persecution from the Roman Empire, because no one likes being fed to lions.