Places tobbinator Wants to Go

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.

1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.

Mediterranean castle on a tiny Turkish island.

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

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

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.

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

Mausoleum and Holy Seat of Antiochus I of Commagene.

Roman ruins, natural methane fires and a lovely beach.

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

A Turkish monastery tucked into a cliff wall.

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

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

Ottoman-era houses lovingly preserved.

Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.

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

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

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

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

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