Ancient barriers wrap around what was once an important stop along the Silk Road.

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

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

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

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

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

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

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

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

Walk or bike along a narrow strip of Belgium sandwiched by German territory.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

This small red school was where Germany signed their surrender during WWII.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

This abandoned church in central Lyon is missing its front stairs.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

Dedicated to the American general whose reply to a German demand for surrender was simply "Nuts!"

An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”