Places papadirk Wants to Go

Giant granite sculptures representing family on the northern coast of Spain.

The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.

A memorial to a dizzying sports device and its creator.

A little-known caravanserai hidden among farmhouses in the Turkish countryside.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

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

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

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

Mediterranean castle on a tiny Turkish island.

Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.

The deepest underground city in Turkey was designed to protect 20,000 people behind massive stone doors.

This Ottoman bridge is a rare covered bridge with shops, and considers itself the only bazaar bridge in the world.

This ancient structure appears Roman, but was constructed during the 16th century and was utilized until 1911.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

Ottoman-era houses lovingly preserved.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

Extremely isolated Silk Road caravanserai in the middle of nowhere.

Standing proud atop a Turkish bluff, this Ottoman palace has retained its grandeur despite being abandoned for centuries.

An ancient church on a tiny island covered in stone bible stories has controversially been turned into a museum.

Mausoleum and Holy Seat of Antiochus I of Commagene.