Cappadocia is one of the most touristy places I've visited, but in a good way: someone before you has already made--and the well-developed tourist infrastructure accommodated--every reasonable request for activities and amenities. You can explore the region by foot, bicycle, motorcycle, horse, car or hot air balloon. You can sleep in a cave, a fairy chimney, a hotel, or a tent. I almost wouldn't be surprised if you could get wifi 20 stories underground in Derinkuyu Underground City.
See here for more on Cappadocia's Hittite, Persian, Macedonian, Roman, Armenian, Byzantine, and Turkish history (!).