An underexplored, 130-foot tropical waterfall that you will have all to yourself.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

A Stalinist prison camp for the wives and children of men accused of betraying the Soviet state is now a memorial museum.

A collection of Lenin busts and other Soviet Era statues sit idly behind the Semipalatinsk Hotel.

This sprawling market is a one-stop shop for traditional Kazakh foods, from mare’s milk to sheep’s head.

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.

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.

A brilliant turquoise lake in the mountains.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

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

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

This remote, abandoned Soviet observatory promises spectacular views for those who can reach it.

This dark, damp, perilous tunnel is the only passage from north to south Tajikistan.

The largest Lenin statue in Central Asia was moved to an empty field rather than being destroyed.

The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.

A quarter mile off the coastal tip of Maine you'll find the "Beloved Island" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The third-largest island in Canada is one of the remotest places on Earth.

The ruined remains of an early hydroelectric dam.

This mill on Lake Erie appears to shrink as a viewer approaches thanks to an optical illusion.

Two provinces and two territories touch borders deep in the middle of the wilderness.

The statue of the famous elephant who was the original source of the word "jumbo".