One of my favourite visits was to Ani - a massive deserted ruined city in the middle of nowhere on the Anatolian steppe, we encountered literally only two other tourists and an utterly bored looking shepherd boy with a few sheep in several hours walking around, awed by this incredible lost settlement and the eerie atmosphere of the place, with thousand year old ruins scattered and decaying uncared for, and the barely audible sound of a bulldozer building a Russian gun emplacement across the Armenian border about half a mile away.