Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."

A beautiful but deteriorating monument of Soviet architecture.

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.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

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

Fortified homes of highland warriors that are still in use today.

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.

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

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

Underground monastery and fortress.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

Known as the Sistine Chapel of Egypt, this tomb houses some of the most well-preserved paintings in Egypt.

The world's largest church atop a political fault line.

Bombed and burned, this monument represents the often controversial ties between Vietnam and Cambodia.

This impressive clifftop temple was once at the center of an international custody dispute.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

A monument built to commemorate the billionth barrel of oil extracted from the Seria oil field in Brunei.

A well kept and well documented look at the Bruneian Sultan's life and successes.

A symbol of Islam in oil-rich Brunei.

Ferdinand Magellan dubbed the world's largest water village the "Venice of the East."