Places tobywatfa Wants to Go

Wash down heaping platters of meze with raki at one of the city's best taverns.

Come for the whole sides of slow-roasted lamb, stay for the regional Kurdish specialties.

Eat your way through history.

Homesick Syrian refugees head to this restaurant for a taste of Damascus.

Have tea in a cemetery with a dazzling view of Istanbul.

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

One of the largest wooden constructions in Europe was meant to be a casino, but soon became an orphanage.

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

The eerie ruins of this feudal fortress witnessed the execution of 60 conspirators in 1387.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

London's largest outsider art museum.

A domed disco abandoned since the '70s now attracts artists and explorers under its unique roof.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.

An enchanting work of outsider art, full of whimsical sculptures and carvings.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

This giant underground cave chamber can only be accessed through a small opening at the top.

An 11th-century medieval castle cascades over the town of Numão.

These grandstands are among the oldest continuously used stands in the world.

A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.