Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

Large miniature theme park with 100-plus models.

The last planned Soviet city was built for the former residents of Pripyat after the Chernobyl disaster.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

Christianity and Islam have clashed, yet here a Serbian Orthodox church and a mosque stand together.

The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia has survived centuries of invasions, political shifts, and religious purges.

On the outskirts of the small village, an abandoned grassy field glitters thanks to the white stones of an ancient structure.

An ancient Thracian city where fire rituals were practiced on the largest cult altar in Southeast Europe.