Experience architect Le Corbusier's modernist design for living in the home he designed for himself.

An unsettling shrine dedicated to the ravenous beast that prowled 18th-century France.

Huge stairway leads to this massive gallery.

Nestled in a peaceful valley, this Armenian monastery may have been saved from Mongols thanks to the eyes of God.

This ancient monastery complex was transformed from an island to a peninsula when the lake was partially drained.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

When the Soviets destroyed the historic Armenian monastery they somehow left its bell tower intact.

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

At this rare mosque in Tbilisi, Sunni and Shia Muslims pray side by side.

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

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

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

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

A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.

Rock-hewn monastery complex with hundreds of cave structures tucked away into the mountainside.

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

Ancient rock-hewn town that witnessed key events of Georgian history.

Today this former Nazi concentration camp stands as a poignant memorial to the victims of fascism, and a warning from history.

Unable to build support structures on glaciers, the engineers for this tramway were forced to design a unique system.

The shape of this old salt factory complex was inspired by the course of the Sun.

The smallest port in France is named after the pirate who created it.

A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.

César Baldaccini's iconic sculpture of a 40-foot thumb stands tall in La Défense.