A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

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

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.

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 Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

The grassy landscape is home to the world's last truly wild horses.

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

A beloved tribute to the Fab Four and the freedoms they inspired.

A huge communist-era propaganda monument and mural that offers stunning views of the Mongolian capital.

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

A modern tower, symbolizing the legend of a golden egg on top of the tree of life.

The most gigantic, swoony, intimidating trio of fingers in all of antiquity.

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.