Haydarpasa

The Haydarpasa railroad station in Kadikoy, one of the Asian districts of Istanbul. From here you can take a train and go to Ankara or Eskisehir, as well as more outlandish destinations such as Van, Baghdad, Damascus and Tehran.

Built by the Germans during their quasi-imperial "alliance" with the Ottomans in 1906, this building is the only train station that is surrounded on three sides by water. Many people from inland Anatolia get their first glimpse of the sea at this place.

You can see the German-made clock set in the facade, as well as one of the station's earliest steam locomotives in the foreground.