The most complete urbex map of Turkey available — 200+ verified GPS locations spanning the fairy chimney valleys and abandoned cave churches of Cappadocia, the Belle Époque orphanage ruins on the...
Turkey has one of the most geographically vast and historically layered urbex landscapes on earth — a country spanning 780,000 square kilometres where Byzantine cave churches abandoned in 1923, the...
Cappadocia is Turkey's most extraordinary abandoned landscape — a region where human beings have carved homes, churches, monasteries and entire underground cities into volcanic tuff for 3,000 years, and where...
Turkey's abandoned villa heritage spans four centuries of imperial and cosmopolitan wealth — Ottoman yalı summer palaces on the Bosphorus, Belle Époque casino-hotels turned orphanages on the Princes' Islands, 1920s...
Turkey's strategic position between Europe and Asia has made it one of the most militarily contested territories in history — a landscape where WWI battlefields, Byzantine fortress ruins, Cold War...
Few countries carry as many layers of forced departure as Turkey — a century of population exchanges, earthquakes, dam floods and failed development projects has left an extraordinary patchwork of...
Turkey's abandoned hotel heritage is as varied as the country itself — from the Belle Époque Orient Express casino on a Princes' Island that never served a single guest to...
Izmir — ancient Smyrna, once the most cosmopolitan city of the Ottoman Empire — carries one of the most dramatic abandonment stories in the eastern Mediterranean. The Great Fire of...
Ankara is Turkey's capital and second city — but it is also one of the least-explored urbex destinations in the country, its derelict heritage overshadowed by the dramatic ruins of...
Antalya is Turkey's premier Mediterranean resort region — but behind the beach hotels and the Roman harbour lies one of the richest concentrations of deserted ancient cities in the world....
Istanbul is the only city on earth that has served as capital of three empires — Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman — and its abandoned heritage reflects every one of those...
Turkey layers more distinct types of historical abandonment per square kilometre than almost any country on earth — Byzantine cave churches with intact frescoes left when Greek Orthodox communities departed...
