Troy Museum in Çanakkale Merkez

You're standing at the Troy Museum, near the village of Tevfikiye in northwestern Turkey. The ruins of ancient Troy lie about 800 metres to the west. Take a good look at the building first. It's a big cube, four floors high, wrapped in rust-coloured weathering steel. That's no accident. The architects wanted it to look as if it had been dug out of the excavation itself. And here's a lovely detail: the building is exactly as tall as the dig at Troy is deep. It gives you a feel for just how many layers of history were uncovered there.