Places scheung Wants to Go

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.

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.

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

A gorgeous, Gaudí-esque stairway constructed in the city of Istanbul by a prominent Jewish family.

This museum was invented in a novel before being made real by the author.

An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.

The most metal church of all time was built in record time because of an international, pious pissing contest.

A sixth-century Byzantine cistern hidden below a modern carpet store.

Step back in time and witness the fall of Constantinople.

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.

Hungarian Jews were ghettoized during the Second World War, but little remains of the original wall that closed the Jewish people off from the rest of the city.

A scene from one of Hungary's most famous novels.

This statue honors one of Budapest's most beloved literary characters.

The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

A deer-headed statue that brings together a 12th-century legend and big wave surfing.

These rose marble urinals are the most luxurious loos in Liverpool.

A memorial to the politician who became Great Britain's first fatality to be caused by a locomotive.

This abandoned lock-up was saved because of its connection to a local football team.

Charles Dickens described the concert room in this amazing Victorian hall as "the most perfect room in the world."