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

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

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

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

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

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

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.

The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.

This historic lighthouse has been reincarnated as the perfect picnic place.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.

The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.

Where a young athlete began his run across Canada after losing his right leg to cancer.

A crescent of 12 simple statues poised on a small windswept island off the coast of Newfoundland.

This former iron ore mine comes alive with fascinating stories of its history.

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

This huge ship ran aground and has simply been left to sit there ever since.

From this isolated strip of land in Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

An abandoned amusement park hints at the twisted history of the Newfoundland Railway.

Dedicated to the deadliest aviation accidents on Canadian soil.

The tiny airport in remote Newfoundland that inspired a hit musical is also a modernist architectural gem.

A statue of the early navigator stands overlooking the land he first surveyed.

This quirky museum will make you question everything, including the shape of the planet.