Places nickfranssen Wants to Go

The largest Neolithic ruins in the world hide a notably clean prehistoric metropolis.

The best-preserved ancient theater in the world.

This beautiful train graveyard is one of the largest collections of steam locomotives in the Mediterranean and Europe.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

At this ancient settlement at the foot of Mount Babadağ, honeycomb tombs are carved into a round cliff.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

Some 20,000 dust-covered unwanted vehicles languish in the desert.

A creepy, deserted mock Arabian village can be found in the middle of the Qatari desert.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

According to local legends, the shallow sandbar that allows visitors to walk across Orhaniye Bay has a tragic backstory.

This crucial gathering spot along the "hippie trail" still displays old notes between traveling beatniks and backpackers.

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

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

Ruins of an early Roman Christian church dating back to the 4th to 5th centuries.

A crumbling monument to a now locally-extinct sport in Bulgaria's oldest ski resort.

This tiny Bulgarian town offers a stunning location in the mountains and a storied history.

At almost 900 feet long, this is Bulgaria's longest suspension bridge and the only way to reach the small village of Lisitsite.

These ruins once flourished as the capital of the Lydian kingdom, often credited with the invention of metal coinage.

Stand on the rim of a dormant volcano and gaze across a vast ash plain frozen in time.

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.