Places b3ndi3tz Wants to Go

This half-forgotten fortress was constructed by the Ottoman conqueror of Constantinople.

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

This former Imperial summer home was the venue for a royal slap that once echoed 'round the world.

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

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

Eat your way through history.

This museum was invented in a novel before being made real by the author.

The remains of the medieval city walls that once protected the Genoese quarter of Constantinople

A gorgeous, Gaudí-esque stairway constructed in the city of Istanbul by a prominent Jewish family.

Climb a steep hill in 90 seconds on the second-oldest urban subway in the world.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

This crucial gathering spot along the "hippie trail" still displays old notes between traveling beatniks and backpackers.

Quite possibly the oldest love poem known to humankind.

A section of the long chain that blocked enemy ships from entering Constantinople.

Two of the most notable names in automobile history are commemorated at the place where they're said to have first met.

Once called "the biggest room in the world," this Victorian-era hall is so large that it contains a smaller 1970s heptagonal theatre.

An obscure walkway dedicated to a scientist who helped pave the way for the world to sit up and take notice of Manchester.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

One of the trees in Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens is actually a World War II memorial, and it's made of metal.

Amazing tiled map mural showing the lines of the famous Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, incorporated into the war memorial after WW1

The city of Manchester quietly unveiled this tribute to a 19th-century massacre.

One of Manchester’s museums has gathered and preserved British political paraphernalia covering over 200 years.

Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.