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

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

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

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

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

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

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

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.

Unusual building appears to be haphazardly built from randomly piled bricks.

This neon lit Georgian cave claims to hold the boulder Prometheus was chained to.

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

The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.

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

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

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

Underground monastery and fortress.

This virtually windowless mass of smooth concrete is the only Catholic church in the city.

This World War I fortress is the perfect place to catch a Montenegrin sunset.

A beautiful mountaintop mausoleum devoted to a Montenegrin icon can't seem to make everyone happy.

Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

On top of a resort town as old as the Bronze Age sits an incredible war memorial statue overlooking the beaches below.

This exclusive resort has completely covered a tiny Balkan island in a 5-star warren of guest rooms.