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

Nicknamed Kazakhstan's Grand Canyon, this natural wonder lies east of Almaty near the Chinese border.

Mysterious spherical rocks in the semi-desert of western Kazakhstan.

Iconic pyramid from famed British architect Norman Foster designed to represent all of the world's religious faiths.

A brilliant turquoise lake in the mountains.

An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

An outdoor installation of 20 vintage signs that once hung in front of businesses throughout town.

Museum of stuffed gophers set up in various scenes.

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

Legions of Roman soldiers bathed in this ancient spa complex under a Budapest transit station.

Beautiful antiques and obscure engineering artifacts trace the evolution of phones from rare luxuries to ubiquitous.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

Central Europe's largest collection of mini-bottles is on display at this museum devoted to a bitter Hungarian liquor.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

This quaint Hungarian railway system is operated exclusively by children between the ages of 10 and 14.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

This hidden art nouveau gem was designed by an architect in search of a national style.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.