This column celebrates Rome's victory over the Goths, and may be the oldest Roman monument in Istanbul.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

This family-owned canteen has been selling goat milk ice cream since 1933.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

A mosque with distinctive modern features.

The home-turned-museum of Barış Manço, the mustachioed Turkish Elvis for children.

One of the largest wooden constructions in Europe was meant to be a casino, but soon became an orphanage.

Over the centuries, this island paradise has done it all, from providing monks with ecclesiastical respite to sheltering an exiled Leon Trotsky.

Fantastic lake on the heart of a fault line.