In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.

Monks in the empyreal Alazani River valley have preserved their 1,000-year-old winemaking tradition.

With over 10,000 lights, this engineering marvel lights up the city after dark.

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

A lively circle of dancers in the Georgian capital commemorates an ancient rite of spring.

You'll find just about anything in this funky Tbilisi flea market.

The oldest ruins at this castle overlooking Georgia's Terek River Valley date back to the 10th century.

This architecturally eclectic fortress witnessed centuries of bloody turmoil, including the massacre of its ruling clan.

Georgia's answer to Easter Island immortalizes the nation's great poets, artists, and leaders in stone glory.

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."