Places pierro69740 Wants to Go

This giant work of Cappadocian pottery includes a memorial for the artisan who created it.

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

The legendary wooden horse that stands in modern Troy is a prop from the 2004 Wolfgang Petersen film.

A recently-abandoned international exhibition center.

Balanced on four stone pillars, this historic tower was the site of a tragic political assassination.

A former salt mine is now a cool picnic spot for families and asthmatics.

This elevator was built in 1907 to connect two neighborhoods separated by a steep, rocky cliff.

Remnants of successive wars and Muslim colonialism in the 11th century.

A small mountain at the crossroads of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria that some believe was the landing point of Noah's Ark.

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

Natural rock formation, or biblical artifact that saved Earth's wildlife two by two?

This ancient abandoned church in a remote part of Turkey is in danger of falling over.

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

This airport also offers travelers the chance to view thousands of years of Turkish history.

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

Byzantine emperors ruled, lived, and died in this 13th-century palace-turned-museum.

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

A beautiful 19th-century Armenian mansion is preserved above an unassuming cafe.

This church houses the tomb—but not the remains—of St. Nicholas, the likely progenitor to Santa Claus.

One of the newest mosques in a city filled with thousands.

This mysterious cliffside carving of an ancient Hittite deity has baffled scholars for centuries.

An underground network of massive stone arches and their skylit vaults support ruins of portico structures above.

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.

Mediterranean castle on a tiny Turkish island.