Istanbul, Turkey
Taksim Mosque
One of the newest mosques in a city filled with thousands.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Istanbul, Turkey
One of the newest mosques in a city filled with thousands.
Istanbul, Turkey
This historic hotel preserves many treasures from its heyday hosting passengers on the Orient Express.
Istanbul, Turkey
This half-forgotten fortress was constructed by the Ottoman conqueror of Constantinople.
Istanbul, Turkey
Climb a steep hill in 90 seconds on the second-oldest urban subway in the world.
Istanbul, Turkey
A gorgeous, Gaudí-esque stairway constructed in the city of Istanbul by a prominent Jewish family.
Helsingør, Denmark
Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Copenhagen, Denmark
A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.
Copenhagen, Denmark
The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.
Tallinn, Estonia
During the Soviet era, the spire of this longstanding church was used as a radio transmission tower.
Tallinn, Estonia
"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.
Dublin, Ireland
Catholics make up 84% of Ireland's population but this Dublin museum remembers the small but important Jewish community.
Dublin, Ireland
The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.
Dublin, Ireland
The house where the writer spent his formative years.
Connemara, Ireland
A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.
Dublin, Ireland
The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.
London, England
This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.
London, England
The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.
London, England
London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.
London, England
This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.
London, England
A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.
London, England
The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
London, England
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.