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A relict tree native to southwestern Türkiye. The sığla ağacı has survived since before the Ice Age, and its aromatic resin has been traded across the Mediterranean for thousands of years.

Türkiye's highest peak at 5,137 metres. Ağrı Dağı has carried different names and meanings across every civilization that has lived in its shadow, from Urartu to the present day.

Bozcaada sits at the southern entrance to the Dardanelles, just off the ancient Troad. Known as Tenedos in antiquity, the island appears in stories of Troy and later became an important stopping point for ships waiting for the right wind. Vineyards still cover much of its landscape today.

A marble avenue still leads toward a harbor that disappeared over a thousand years ago. Ephesus grew into one of the greatest cities of the Roman Mediterranean before the sea slowly left it behind.

A flowering tree native to the eastern Mediterranean, known for turning the Bosphorus purple each spring.

A freshwater lake in Bursa Province, home to ancient Nicaea, a submerged fourth-century basilica, and fish closely tied to this basin.

Volcanic stone pillars formed over millions of years in the heart of Anatolia. The peribacaları of Cappadocia record the region's geological history in their layers and its human history in the rooms carved into their cores.

An endemic fir tree found only in northwestern Anatolia, classified as endangered. The Kazdağı göknarı grows on the mountain the ancient Greeks called Mount Ida, where myth and ecology overlap.

On the Lycian coast southwest of Antalya, a forest has grown over a Roman harbor city, and a river still runs through its ruins to the sea. A few kilometres inland, fire comes straight out of bare rock, unfed by any wood, and has done so for something like twenty five centuries.

A natural wonder of white travertine terraces formed by mineral-rich thermal springs, paired with the ruins of the ancient spa city Hierapolis. Explore how geology, history, and Turkish language intersect in one place.

A forested village in Beykoz, on Istanbul's Asian side, settled in 1842 by twelve Polish exiles after the failed November Uprising. The forest around it is now Istanbul's largest nature park. A small Polish-speaking community still survives inside it.

A deep alkaline lake in Burdur, ringed by white mineral shores and turquoise water. Villagers call its water healing and its depths bottomless, and NASA scientists study its shoreline to read an ancient lakebed on Mars.

An endemic flower known as the Weeping Bride. The ters lale blooms upside down on the mountains of eastern Anatolia, carrying centuries of grief, legend, and sacred meaning across multiple traditions.