Places AdariFlo Wants to Go

Taking the subway here means doing so over a bridge located in the middle of an estuary.

This airport also offers travelers the chance to view thousands of years of Turkish history.

A beautiful 19th-century Armenian mansion is preserved above an unassuming cafe.

This church houses the tomb—but not the remains—of St. Nicholas, the likely progenitor to Santa Claus.

Byzantine emperors ruled, lived, and died in this 13th-century palace-turned-museum.

Wash down heaping platters of meze with raki at one of the city's best taverns.

A tiny park in the middle of some big power politics.

According to local legends, the shallow sandbar that allows visitors to walk across Orhaniye Bay has a tragic backstory.

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

It's believed that this small church was connected to the Hagia Sophia via a secret tunnel.

Homesick Syrian refugees head to this restaurant for a taste of Damascus.

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.

One of the newest mosques in a city filled with thousands.

An underground network of massive stone arches and their skylit vaults support ruins of portico structures above.

Come for the whole sides of slow-roasted lamb, stay for the regional Kurdish specialties.

This arch granting triumphal entrance into Antalya was designed to honor the emperor's visit.

One of the most exquisite Lycian hilltop citadels in Turkey.

Mediterranean castle on a tiny Turkish island.

These ruins once flourished as the capital of the Lydian kingdom, often credited with the invention of metal coinage.

This ancient subterranean megalopolis is known for the hot oil traps that were installed above each of its entrances.

Eat your way through history.

This ancient city—home to nine civilizations—is soon to be buried under 200 feet of water.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

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