Places gabbysimms Wants to Go

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

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

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

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

A surprising and unconventional mosque hidden in the subsoil of Istanbul.

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

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

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

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

The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.

No one is sure if the world's fourth-largest diamond had been found in a rubbish heap or was pawned by Napoleon's mom.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

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

Large miniature theme park with 100-plus models.

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

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

Inside features a display of how artistic crucifixes transformed throughout the centuries.

Next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a cemetery home to ancient sarcophagi and disturbing murals.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

The eclectic seaside sanctuary caters to a rather fowl crowd.