Unusual building appears to be haphazardly built from randomly piled bricks.

This extraordinary, multi-pillared monument depicts the fascinating history of Georgia.

A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."

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

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

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

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

A memorial to the thousands of Turkmen soldiers and civilians who died in a bloody 1881 battle.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

This harsh mountain path was built as a strange attempt to improve the health of Turkmen citizens.

An eccentric dictator's take on a Turkmen version of Disneyland.

Few people have ever heard of, let alone visited, one of Turkmenistan’s most impressive natural attractions.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

The abandoned site of the Beatles spiritual awakening and subsequent revolt.

What do we know about the real woman behind one of the Beatles' most famous songs?

A replica of the gaslit streetlamp under which three teenagers founded a football club.

This small shrine dedicated to a fish is believed to hold the secrets to this historic market's founding.