🇹🇷Türkiye

Suluhan

Suluhan is a historic commercial han in Ankara’s Ulus area, known locally as Hasan Paşa Hanı and Sulu Han.

• High
• Historic monument
• Ankara

METU Science and Technology Museum

ODTÜ Bilim ve Teknoloji Müzesi

METU Science and Technology Museum occupies a university setting on the Middle East Technical University campus in Ankara and brings together three distinct exhibition areas: the Science and Technology History Exhibition, the Classical Automobile Exhibition and the Open-Air Exhibition.

• High
• Museum
• Ankara

Mount Spil National Park

Spil Dağı Millî Parkı

Spil Dağı Milli Parkı is the protected forest on the mountain behind Manisa, opened to the public on 22 April 1968.

• High
• Nature site
• Manisa

Hisar Mosque

Hisar Camii

Hisar Mosque is an active Ottoman mosque in İzmir’s Kemeraltı bazaar, in the Hisarönü area beside Kızlarağası Hanı. İzmir Metropolitan Municipality dates its construction to 1592 and attributes it to Yakup Bey.

• High
• Place of worship
• İzmir

İzmir Toy Museum

Ümran Baradan Oyun ve Oyuncak Müzesi

İzmir Toy Museum is a specialised Konak Municipality collection in Varyant, built around toys gathered by ceramic artist and painter Ümran Baradan.

• High
• Museum
• İzmir

Feza Gürsey Science Center

Feza Gürsey Bilim Merkezi

Feza Gürsey Science Center is an interactive science venue inside Ankara’s Altınpark. Ankara Metropolitan Municipality founded the center on 23 April 1993 to make scientific ideas accessible through hands-on discovery.

• High
• Museum
• Ankara

First Bullet Monument

İlk Kurşun Anıtı

First Bullet Monument is a memorial in Konak Atatürk Square, where İzmir’s civic history unfolds around the Clock Tower and Konak Government House.

• High
• Historic monument
• İzmir

Muğla Museum

Muğla Müzesi

Muğla Museum occupies a former prison building on Müştak Bey Cad., behind the courthouse in Menteşe.

• High
• Museum
• Muğla

Esertepe Park

Esertepe Parkı

Esertepe Park is a municipal recreation area in Keçiören, positioned between the Esertepe and Etlik neighbourhoods. Its approximately 180,000-square-metre scale makes it a substantial hillside destination within Ankara rather than a small neighbourhood garden.

• High
• Nature site
• Ankara

Saint Polycarp Church

Saint Polycarpe Kilisesi

Saint Polycarp Church is a Roman Catholic church in Akdeniz Mahallesi, in İzmir’s Konak district.

• High
• Place of worship
• İzmir

Tomb of Karyağdı Hatun

Karyağdı Hatun Türbesi

The Tomb of Karyağdı Hatun is a small Ottoman funerary monument on Doğan Sokak in Ankara’s Ulus area, close to İtfaiye Meydanı.

• High
• Historic monument
• Ankara

Bouleuterion (Ephesus)

Odeon (Konser Salonu)

The Bouleuterion at Ephesus is a compact civic auditorium associated with the city council and also known as the Odeon.

• High
• Historic monument
• İzmir

Konak Mosque

Konak Camii

Konak Mosque, also known as Yalı Mosque, is a small Ottoman-era mosque on Konak Square in central İzmir.

• High
• Place of worship
• İzmir

Maltepe Mosque

Maltepe Camii

Maltepe Mosque is a functioning place of worship in Maltepe Mahallesi, within Ankara’s Çankaya district. Construction began in 1954 and finished in 1959, while the design adopts the visual language of classical Ottoman mosques.

• High
• Place of worship
• Ankara

Çandarlı Castle

Çandarlı Kalesi

Çandarlı Castle is a compact fortified landmark in Çandarlı Mahallesi, within İzmir’s Dikili district.

• High
• Historic monument
• İzmir

Opera Stage

Ankara Devlet Opera ve Balesi

Opera Stage is a working performance venue at Atatürk Bulvarı No:20 in Ankara’s Ulus district. Ankara State Opera and Ballet operates it, while the building is also used with the State Theatres.

• High
• Art and culture venue
• Ankara

Çakırağa Mansion

Çakırağa Konağı

Çakırağa Mansion is a preserved historic residence in Birgi Mahallesi, near Ödemiş in İzmir Province, now experienced as a Ministry of Culture and Tourism museum.

• High
• Museum
• İzmir

Kocain Cave

Kocain Mağarası

Kocain Cave, also known locally as Kocain Mağarası, is a natural limestone cave in Antalya Province.

• High
• Nature site
• Antalya

TCDD General Headquarters Building

TCDD Genel Müdürlüğü

TCDD General Headquarters Building is the Ankara headquarters of Türkiye's State Railways, at Hipodrom Caddesi beside Ankara railway station in Altındağ. Its identity is tied to railway administration rather than a museum collection or a station's passenger functions.

• High
• Historic monument
• Ankara

Milas Museum

Milas Müzesi

Milas Museum is a local museum in Milas, Muğla, founded in 1987 and devoted to the archaeological and ethnographic heritage of the surrounding region.

• High
• Museum
• Muğla

Nevşehir Museum

Nevşehir Müzesi

Nevşehir Museum is a Ministry of Culture and Tourism museum whose story began in 1967, when it opened as the Damat İbrahim Paşa Archaeology and Ethnography Museum.

• High
• Museum
• Nevşehir

Melike Hatun Mosque

Melike Hatun Camii

Melike Hatun Mosque is a contemporary religious landmark in Ankara’s historic Ulus district, standing at İtfaiye Meydanı on Kosova Caddesi in Anafartalar Mahallesi, Altındağ.

• High
• Place of worship
• Ankara

Hamaxia

Hemaksia

Hamaxia, known locally as Hemaksia, is an ancient settlement near Antalya in southern Turkey. This archaeological site represents a lesser-visited historical location in the region, offering visitors exposure to Mediterranean antiquity away from heavily trafficked attractions.

• High
• Historic monument
• Antalya

Abdi İpekçi Park

Abdi İpekçi Parkı

Abdi İpekçi Park is a 33,120-square-metre memorial and recreation space on Sıhhiye Square in central Ankara.

• High
• Nature site
• Ankara

Çeşme Museum

Çeşme Müzesi

Çeşme Museum is an archaeological museum inside historic Çeşme Castle in Musalla Mahallesi. The castle is part of the visit, giving the collection a setting of defensive walls and historic rooms rather than a detached modern gallery.

• High
• Museum
• İzmir

Ankara Vakıf Museum

Ankara Vakıf Eserleri Müzesi

Ankara Vakıf Museum is a specialised Ulus collection centred on objects preserved through the charitable foundation tradition known as vakıf. Its displays connect religious practice with the material skills that supported worship, learning and public benefit.

• High
• Museum
• Ankara

Alakilise

Angel Gabriel Church

Alakilise, also called Angel Gabriel Church, is a historical Christian religious site in the Antalya region. It is suited to travelers drawn to quiet stone ruins, religious heritage, and the layered history of southern Türkiye.

• High
• Historic monument
• Antalya

Kuva-yi Milliye and the Republic Monument

Kuva-yi Milliye ve Cumhuriyet Anıtı

The Kuva-yi Milliye ve Cumhuriyet Anıtı is a 63-metre monument on the southern approach to Manisa, and it is the tallest thing a visitor arriving by road will see.

• High
• Historic monument
• Manisa

Başdurak Mosque

Başdurak Camii

Başdurak Mosque is a functioning Ottoman-era mosque at the meeting of Anafartalar Caddesi and Kemeraltı 863 Sokak in Konak, İzmir.

• High
• Place of worship
• İzmir

Bilkent Concert Hall

Bilkent Senfoni Orkestrası (BSO) Konser Salonu

Bilkent Concert Hall is a 700-seat performance venue in Bilkent University’s Faculty of Music and Performing Arts and the home stage of the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra.

• High
• Art and culture venue
• Ankara

Zeytintaşı Cave

Zeytintaşı Mağarası

Zeytintaşı Cave, also known locally as Zeytintaşı Mağarası, is a natural cave attraction in Antalya province, Türkiye. Its name evokes the surrounding olive-growing landscape: “zeytin” means olive and “taşı” means stone in Turkish.

• High
• Nature site
• Antalya

Ankara Parachute Tower

THK Havacılık Müzesi ve Paraşüt Kulesi

Ankara Parachute Tower is a 41-metre aviation landmark in Ulus, beside Ankara Sports Hall and close to Gençlik Park. Opened on 28 October 1937, it was designed around parachute training rather than as a conventional monument or lookout.

• High
• Historic monument
• Ankara

Bet Israel Synagogue

Bet Israel Sinagogu

Bet Israel Synagogue is an active historic place of worship in Karataş, within Konak, İzmir. Construction began in 1905, and the synagogue opened for worship in 1907.

• High
• Place of worship
• İzmir

Nevşehir Castle

Nevşehir Kalesi

Nevşehir Castle is a historic defensive landmark in Camicedit, on one of the highest points in Nevşehir. Its compact, cylindrical plan is built from volcanic rock and tuff, materials that connect the structure directly to the region’s distinctive geology.

• High
• Historic monument
• Nevşehir

Temple of Hadrian

Hadrian Tapınağı

The Temple of Hadrian is a Roman Imperial monument on Curetes Street inside the Efes Archaeological Site at Selçuk in İzmir. Associated with Emperor Hadrian, it is recognised as one of Ephesus’s representative Roman Imperial buildings.

• High
• Historic monument
• İzmir

The Atatürk and War of Independence Museum

Atatürk ve Kurtuluş Savaşı Müzesi

The Atatürk and War of Independence Museum is a museum within Anıtkabir, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s memorial complex in Anıttepe, Ankara.

• High
• Museum
• Ankara

Ahmet Hamdi Akseki Mosque

Ahmet Hamdi Akseki Camii

Ahmet Hamdi Akseki Mosque is a contemporary Ankara landmark beside the Presidency of Religious Affairs at the Bilkent junction. Set on Dumlupınar Bulvarı in Üniversiteler Mahallesi, it opened for worship on Friday, 19 April 2013.

• High
• Place of worship
• Ankara

Buca Gölet

Buca Gölet is a public recreation facility in Belenbaşı Mevkii, near the Sebze Hali in Kaynaklar, within İzmir’s Buca district.

• High
• Nature site
• İzmir

Cebeci Asri Cemetery

Cebeci Asri Mezarlığı

Cebeci Asri Cemetery is a municipal burial ground in Gültepe Mahallesi, within Ankara’s Altındağ district, and it has served the city since 1935.

• High
• Place of worship
• Ankara

Human Rights Monument

İnsan Hakları

The Human Rights Monument is a bronze civic sculpture at the junction of Yüksel Street and Konur Street in Kızılay, central Ankara. Sculptor Metin Yurdanur made it, and it was installed in 1990.

• High
• Art and culture venue
• Ankara

Ancient Greek theatre of Pergamon

Tiyatro

Ancient Greek theatre of Pergamon is a Hellenistic hillside auditorium within the Bergama Acropolis archaeological site. Its seating descends directly along the Acropolis slope, making the terrain part of the theatre’s design rather than a backdrop.

• High
• Historic monument
• İzmir

Birgi Grand Mosque

Aydınoğlu Mehmet Bey Camii

Birgi Grand Mosque, also known as Aydınoğlu Mehmet Bey Mosque, stands in Birgi in Ödemiş district of İzmir, beside the stream and within the town’s historic settlement.

• High
• Place of worship
• İzmir

Dark Church

Karanlık kilise

Dark Church is a Byzantine rock-cut church inside Göreme Open Air Museum on Müze Caddesi in Göreme, Cappadocia. It is a focused interior stop within the larger museum route, not a separate monument in central Nevşehir.

• High
• Historic monument
• Nevşehir

Dombaycıoğlu Han

Dombaycıoğlu Hanı

Dombaycıoğlu Han is a former Ottoman caravanserai in the middle of Akhisar's market district, built in 1823 by a local merchant, Dombaycıoğlu Mehmet Ağa, as trade through the town grew.

• High
• Historic monument
• Manisa

Hospital Mound

Hastane Höyüğü

Hastane Höyüğü, the Hospital Mound, is an archaeological tell within the same site area as ancient Thyatira, in Akhisar, Manisa province.

• High
• Historic monument
• Manisa

Tree of Science

Bilim Ağacı

Tree of Science, called Bilim Ağacı in Turkish, is an outdoor monument at the A1 entrance of Middle East Technical University in Ankara.

• High
• Art and culture venue
• Ankara

Theater (Ephesus)

Tiyatro

The Great Theater of Ephesus is a vast ancient performance and civic building positioned where the city’s principal harbour route begins.

• High
• Historic monument
• İzmir

Açıksaray

Açıksaray is an open-air archaeological site near Gülşehir in Cappadocia, on the Nevşehir–Gülşehir road about 3 km from Gülşehir. Its name, meaning “Open Palace”, describes rooms, halls and other spaces carved into soft volcanic tuff.

• High
• Historic monument
• Nevşehir

Divlit Volcano

Divlit Yanardağı

Divlit Yanardağı, known locally as Çakallar Tepesi or Divlittepe, is a cinder cone on the shore of the Demirköprü Reservoir in Kula district, at roughly 750 m above sea level.

• High
• Viewpoint
• Manisa

Şinasi Stage

Şinasi Sahnesi

Şinasi Stage is a State Theatres venue in Ankara operated by the General Directorate of State Theatres under Türkiye’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Its auditorium opened on 13 March 1988 and contains 490 seats.

• High
• Art and culture venue
• Ankara

Karşıyaka Cemetery

Karşıyaka Mezarlığı

Karşıyaka Cemetery is a large municipal burial ground in Ankara, maintained as an active cemetery by Ankara Metropolitan Municipality. Its purpose is grave visitation, remembrance and cemetery administration, so the experience differs fundamentally from a sightseeing attraction.

• High
• Place of worship
• Ankara

Dim Cave

Dim Mağarası

Dim Cave, known locally as Dim Mağarası, is a natural cave formation located in the Antalya region of Türkiye. The cave sits within the broader Mediterranean landscape that characterises this part of the Turkish coastline.

• High
• Nature site
• Antalya

Düdensuyu Cave

Altınbeşik Mağarası

Düdensuyu Cave is a natural karst cave formation located in the Antalya region of Türkiye, known locally as Altınbeşik Mağarası. The cave lies within the broader Düden water system, which includes the famous Düden Waterfalls that cascade through the city.

• High
• Nature site
• Antalya

Kaleici Museum

Suna & İnan Kıraç Kaleiçi Museum

The Suna & İnan Kıraç Kaleiçi Museum is a cultural institution situated in Antalya's historic Kaleiçi district. Housed within a restored traditional Ottoman mansion, the museum preserves and presents regional heritage.

• High
• Museum
• Antalya

Kurşunlu Waterfall

Kurşunlu Şelalesi

Kurşunlu Waterfall, known locally as Kurşunlu Şelalesi, is a natural visitor attraction in Antalya. The site features a waterfall as its central element, set within surrounding landscape.

• High
• Nature site
• Antalya

Estergon Castle (Ankara)

Estergon Kalesi Türk Kültür Merkezi

Estergon Turkish Cultural Centre is a castle-inspired municipal complex in Güçlükaya, Keçiören, rather than a surviving medieval fortress.

• High
• Historic monument
• Ankara

Temple of Trajan

Trayan Tapınağı

The Temple of Trajan occupies the highest terrace of the Pergamon Acropolis on Kale Hill above Bergama, İzmir.

• High
• Historic monument
• İzmir

Antalya Toy Museum

Antalya Oyuncak Müzesi

Antalya Toy Museum, also known locally as Antalya Oyuncak Müzesi, is a specialist cultural attraction in Antalya, Türkiye.

• High
• Museum
• Antalya

İzmir Museum of History and Art

İzmir Tarih ve Sanat Müzesi

Inside İzmir’s Kültürpark at the Montrö Gate in Alsancak, the İzmir Museum of History and Art presents the archaeological and artistic record of İzmir, ancient Smyrna and the wider Aegean setting.

• High
• Museum
• İzmir

Wonderland Ankara

Harikalar Diyarı

Wonderland Ankara is a municipal urban park in Ankara’s Sincan district, around Fatih Mahallesi and Ayaş Yolu.

• High
• Nature site
• Ankara

Şaban Ağa Mosque

Şaban Ağa Camii

Şaban Ağa Mosque stands in the former Eskihisar village, within Stratonikeia Ancient City in Yatağan district of Muğla Province. Older records identify the building as Tabakhane Mosque.

• High
• Place of worship
• Muğla

Ayasuluk Citadel

Ayasolouk

Ayasuluk Citadel occupies the summit of Ayasuluk Hill in Selçuk, where the town’s central heritage landscape rises into a defended archaeological enclosure. Its surviving walls belong to a layered setting associated with Byzantine, Aydınoğlu and Ottoman periods.

• High
• Historic monument
• İzmir

Evdir Han

Evdir Han is a Seljuk caravanserai near Antalya, built as a roadside stopping place for people, pack animals and goods moving through the region.

• High
• Historic monument
• Antalya

Roman Theatre, Side

Side Antik Tiyatro

The Roman Theatre at Side is an ancient amphitheatre located in the coastal town of Side, part of the Antalya province on Turkey's Mediterranean coast.

• High
• Art and culture venue
• Antalya

Wonderland Eurasia

Ankapark

Wonderland Eurasia is the former Ankapark theme-park complex in Ankara’s Gazi Mahallesi, Yenimahalle, beside Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bulvarı.

• High
• Entertainment venue
• Ankara

Antalya Clock Tower

Saat Kulesi

Antalya Clock Tower, also called Saat Kulesi, is a prominent historic marker at the edge of Kaleiçi, Antalya’s old town.

• High
• Historic monument
• Antalya

Sarıhan Caravanserai

Sarıhan Kervansaray

Sarıhan Caravanserai is a Seljuk roadside inn built in 1249 during the reign of Seljuk Sultan Izzeddin Keykavus II.

• High
• Historic monument
• Nevşehir

State Agora of Ephesus

State Agora

The State Agora of Ephesus is the ancient city’s civic square: an open archaeological space where the surviving footprint and stonework help explain how public life was organised in Ephesus.

• High
• Historic monument
• İzmir

Tumulus MM

Midas'ın Tümülüsü

Tumulus MM is a monumental Phrygian burial mound at ancient Gordion near Yassıhöyük in Ankara Province.

• High
• Historic monument
• Ankara

Ziraat Bank Museum

Ziraat Bankası Müzesi

Ziraat Bank Museum is a compact institutional museum about the history of Turkey’s state banking tradition. It opened in 1981 in the Honor Hall of Ziraat Bank’s Ankara headquarters, presenting the story within the institution’s own historic home.

• High
• Museum
• Ankara

Main Building of the Istanbul Archaeological Museums

İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzesi

This is the main building of the Istanbul Archaeological Museums, the oldest purpose-built museum in Turkey and the one the whole complex is named after.

• High
• Museum
• Istanbul

50th Year Park

50. Yıl Parkı

50. Yıl Parkı is a hillside public recreation area in Ankara’s 50. Yıl Mahallesi, above Ankara University’s Cebeci Campus in Çankaya. Its character comes from combining open-air recreation with a broad bird’s-eye view across Ankara.

• High
• Nature site
• Ankara

Keloğlan Cave

Keloğlan Mağarası

Keloğlan Cave, also known locally as Keloğlan Mağarası, is a named natural point of interest associated with Antalya, Türkiye. The mapped place is identified as a cave rather than a museum, archaeological monument, or built attraction.

• High
• Nature site
• Antalya

Lake Gölcük

Gölcük

Lake Gölcük is an alluvial-dammed lake in a tectonically defined depression at Gölcük Mahallesi, Ödemiş, İzmir. It sits on the Bozdağlar Plateau at approximately 1,050 metres above sea level, while the surrounding plateau averages about 1,100 metres.

• High
• Nature site
• İzmir

Meclis Park

Meclis Parkı

Meclis Park is a green area within the Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi (TBMM) campus in Ankara’s Bakanlıklar district, beside Atatürk Bulvarı.

• High
• Nature site
• Ankara

Mehmet Akif Ersoy Museum House

Mehmet Akif Ersoy Evi ve Müzesi

Mehmet Akif Ersoy Museum House is a two-storey wooden Ankara house beside Taceddin Dergâhı in Hamamönü.

• High
• Museum
• Ankara

Orange Blossom Park

Portakal Çiçeği Vadisi

Orange Blossom Park is a neighbourhood recreation space in Aziziye, within Ankara’s Çankaya district, on Portakal Çiçeği Park İçi Yolu.

• High
• Nature site
• Ankara

Side Museum

Side Müzesi

Side Museum occupies a restored Roman bath complex in the ancient city of Side, on Turkey's Mediterranean coast. The building's original 5th-century AD structure provides an atmospheric setting for regional archaeological finds.

• High
• Museum
• Antalya

İzmir Wildlife Park

İzmir Doğal Yaşam Parkı

İzmir Wildlife Park is a large municipal zoological park in Sasalı, within Çiğli district of İzmir.

• High
• Family attraction
• İzmir

Konak Pier

Konak Pier is a historic waterfront customs building group on Atatürk Caddesi in İzmir’s Konak district, now used as a shopping and leisure destination.

• High
• Market
• İzmir

Meryem Ana Kilisesi

Meryem Ana Kilisesi is a former Greek Orthodox church in Zaferiye Mahallesi, central Kula, on Mustafa Sapcı Sokak. Its history is tied to Kula’s Rum community, including the Turkish-speaking Karamanlı population.

• High
• Historic monument
• Manisa

Yıldıztepe Military Cemetery

Yıldıztepe Şehitliği

Yıldıztepe Military Cemetery is a small memorial site in İskele Mahallesi, within İzmir’s Urla district.

• High
• Place of worship
• İzmir

Grand Mosque of Manisa

Ulu Camii

The Ulu Camii is the oldest important mosque in Manisa and the one that predates the Ottomans here.

• High
• Place of worship
• Manisa

Akkale

Akkale is the highest bastion of Ankara Castle, at the summit of the fortress above Ankara’s historic Ulus centre. Its identity is architectural and defensive: this is a prominent part of the castle complex, not a separate public museum.

• High
• Historic monument
• Ankara

Atatürk and the Youth Monument

Atatürk Anıtı

Atatürk and the Youth Monument is an open-air work by the sculptor Remzi Savaş, located within Hacettepe University’s Beytepe Campus in Ankara’s Çankaya district. Its approximate position is 39°52′05.1″N, 32°44′10.4″E.

• High
• Historic monument
• Ankara

Atatürk Monument

Atatürk Anıtı

Atatürk Monument is a commemorative landmark inside the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye (TBMM) campus in Ankara.

• High
• Historic monument
• Ankara

Hasan Fehmi Ataç Apartment

Hasan Fehmi Ataç Apartmanı

Hasan Fehmi Ataç Apartment is a historic building in Ankara’s Ulus district, at the intersection of Anafartalar Caddesi and Denizciler Caddesi. It belongs to Altındağ district and is associated with the First National Architecture Movement.

• High
• Historic monument
• Ankara