Places theworldinaframe Wants to Go

An underground city of salt.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

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

This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.

This ancient city—home to nine civilizations—is soon to be buried under 200 feet of water.

Fantastic lake on the heart of a fault line.

The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.

A sacred lake with thousands of sacred carp and a biblical history.

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

Mausoleum and Holy Seat of Antiochus I of Commagene.

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

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

Roman ruins, natural methane fires and a lovely beach.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

While not Turkey's deepest underground city, this subterranean redoubt is the largest.

Once described as the "Eagle's Nest," this ruined ancient city rests on a remote mountaintop.

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

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

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

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

This small museum displays a collection of outsider art and scale models of past "treatments" for mental illness.