Places CJSIMPSON5353 Wants to Go

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

Eat your way through history.

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

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

This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.

The eclectic home of a leading Turkish architect is a gorgeous piece of eye candy.

Large miniature theme park with 100-plus models.

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

A sixth-century Byzantine cistern hidden below a modern carpet store.

The most metal church of all time was built in record time because of an international, pious pissing contest.

An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.

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

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

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

Soak in the soul of Kansas City at the oldest continually-operating jazz club in the country.

The life of one of America's pre-eminent painters is frozen in time in the home where he lived, worked, and died.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Have tea in a cemetery with a dazzling view of Istanbul.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.