Istanbul, Turkey
Museum of Energy
This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.
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Istanbul, Turkey
This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.
Gaziantep, Turkey
This hidden gem is bathed in beautiful natural light.
Istanbul, Turkey
The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.
La Palma, Spain
This underwater graveyard commemorates a group of murdered 16th-century missionaries.
Sant Adrià de Besòs, Spain
The unexpectedly beloved remnants of a controversial thermal power plant.
Istanbul, Turkey
An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.
Kuşadası, Turkey
A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.
Fanzara, Spain
The streets of a sleepy Spanish town proudly exhibit some of the world's finest graffiti.
Safranbolu, Turkey
Ottoman-era houses lovingly preserved.
Madrid, Spain
A subterranean relic of the Spanish Civil War hides below this picturesque park.
Cartagena, Spain
An impressive display of ships and artifacts from the ancient Mediterranean maritime trade.
Istanbul, Turkey
The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.
Ocaklı Köyü, Turkey
An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.
Kayaköy, Turkey
A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.
Denizli, Turkey
Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.
Ronda, Spain
The hidden ruins of an old hydroelectric plant reclaimed by nature.
Marinaleda, Spain
A micro-communist utopia in Spain with no police, no mortgages and full employment.
Valencia, Spain
This amazing example of Valencian Art Nouveau looks more like a cathedral than a public market.
Iceland
This plaque tells the story of an event that took place in an imagined parallel universe.
Toledo, Spain
A display of torture devices used in the Spanish Inquisition and other scourges of medieval Europe.
Barcelona, Spain
The former 1920s mansion of a prominent Catalan developer was used as the Soviet Embassy during the Spanish Civil War, and there is still a bunker below the garden.
Iceland
This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.
Stykkishólmur, Iceland
This collection of unique liquids allows visitors to wander the waters of Iceland's glaciers.
Húsafell, Iceland
Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.