Over the dunes of the Empty Quarter, the mysterious music of the desert.

On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

Planned as the world’s first zero-carbon city, it had lofty ideals—but is only 5 percent completed and aiming for 50 percent carbon-neutral.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

A faithful reproduction of Al-Jazari's enormous water clock.

This artificial archipelago was supposed to resemble a map of the world.

Billed as the "largest natural flower garden in the world" this Middle Eastern show field has little competition at 45 million flowers.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

The secret meeting held in this building would forever change the world.

The country estate of renowned Ukrainian-born artist Ilya Repin.

An unusual museum home to a vast collection of items that represent everyday life.

An engineering marvel at the time of its construction, this cross-border waterway sought to connect the Black Sea to the Baltic.

A system of constructed rapids and concrete waterfalls in a linear park on the Slepnya River.

Though it was heavily modified, fragments of the original medieval cathedral still survive.

A unique museum dedicated to the history of household appliances from across the globe.

Nearly three decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the hero of the USSR still stands over Belarus.

A decommissioned Soviet airplane has been used as a movie theater and a cultural center.

A unique park tells the geological history of Belarus in a national “map” of thousands of boulders and blue spruce.

A symbolic graveyard for the villages that perished during the Nazi invasion of Belarus.

A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

A monument in the Belarusian city of Polotsk claims to mark the exact midpoint of the European continent.