Miletus, Aegean Turkey

More widely dispersed than Priene and without the marvelous view and enchanting atmosphere of the former, the ruins of Miletus lend themselves for a picnic if you are into archeology. Miletus was the birthplace of Thales, the philosopher and mathematician known for Thales’s Theorem. There is hardly any shade, so make sure to bring along the ‘essence of life’, as Thales called water, and you won’t die from heatstroke, as did Thales.