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

A gleaming white and undulating tower marks the border between Georgia and Turkey.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Ancient rock-hewn town that witnessed key events of Georgian history.

Complete town of 5,000 living out at sea on the world's first offshore oil platform.

The building's fluid, wavelike walls are a true feat of architectural ingenuity.

Foreign invaders almost left this lovely Caucasus palace alone—almost.

Resonant stone, that has been played since prehistoric times.

Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan is home to a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

This studio was home to David Bowie's first single, even if it did turn away the Beatles.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.