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

Legend says these stone structures are where the doomed citizens of a vanished village sent themselves to die.

The cave holds a spectacular array of stalactites and stalagmites, including one shaped like a giant human heart.

The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.

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

The second largest in the world, this massive underground void has its own subway.

The secret room where early Bolsheviks cranked out propaganda fliers on a smuggled printing press.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You'll find just about anything in this funky Tbilisi flea market.

The second-deepest known cave on Earth, hidden in an extremely remote mountain region.

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

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

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

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

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city

Small church on top of a huge rock column.

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.