A recently-abandoned international exhibition center.

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

This Ottoman bridge is a rare covered bridge with shops, and considers itself the only bazaar bridge in the world.

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

This family-owned canteen has been selling goat milk ice cream since 1933.

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

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

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

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

It's believed that this small church was connected to the Hagia Sophia via a secret tunnel.

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

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

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

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.

This arch granting triumphal entrance into Antalya was designed to honor the emperor's visit.

One of the most exquisite Lycian hilltop citadels in Turkey.

Mediterranean castle on a tiny Turkish island.

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

This ancient subterranean megalopolis is known for the hot oil traps that were installed above each of its entrances.

A surprising and unconventional mosque hidden in the subsoil of Istanbul.

This hidden gem is bathed in beautiful natural light.

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

Over the centuries, this island paradise has done it all, from providing monks with ecclesiastical respite to sheltering an exiled Leon Trotsky.