Places Crawdie Wants to Go

A mesmerizing reservoir nestled at the heart of a pre-Islamic Yemeni village.

The best-preserved example of a unique structure in Nubian architecture.

A hilltop fortress full of tombs, including one for legendary hero Seyyid Battal Gazi.

The oldest known standing wooden building in the world is a chamber inside a burial mound.

This 3,000-year-old “opium black fortress” towers over the ancient town named after it.

This large Roman bath complex offers a window into ancient life in the arid Central Anatolian steppe.

This 16th-century covered market is still open everyday.

Hundreds of medieval Islamic gravestones decorate the mountainous landscape in the largest cemetery in Turkey.

These ancient ruins include a stadium dating back to 400 BC.

Feast on the freshest of fish by the Bosphorus.

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

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

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

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

The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.

While not Turkey's deepest underground city, this subterranean redoubt is the largest.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

The floor of the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas is entirely covered in sand.

The ruins of a prehistoric village hide on a remote Taiwanese island.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Send your taste buds to South Asia at a sumptuous Southern dinner party.