A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

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

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

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

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

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

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

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

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

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.