This airport also offers travelers the chance to view thousands of years of Turkish history.

This extensive collection of vintage Soviet cars is the only one of its kind in the Caucasus.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Giant cauldrons overflow with Uzbekistan's favorite rice dish at this cavernous dining hall.

A 17th-century mosque that was used for war more than worship.

Known as the most dangerous bridge in the world, the Hussaini Hanging Bridge is only one of many precarious rope bridges in Northern Pakistan.

This dazzlingly turquoise mountain lake was created in the wake of a natural disaster.

The world's most remote memorial to the victims of the UTA Flight 772 disaster.

Built by a North Korean team this monument to African dictator Laurent Kabila has a suspiciously Kim Jong Il shaped body.

Mount Nyiragongo has erupted at least 34 times since 1882 and is home to the world's largest lava lake.

A stone memorial marks the spot where the fighting of World War I finally ceased—three days after the armistice was signed in Europe.

Now abandoned, this stone church was part of the missionary efforts that initiated the Christianization of Zambia.

Africa's fourth longest river originates from a burbling spring in a secluded stretch of woods.

The largest and best-preserved Roman amphitheater in Africa was designed to seat 35,000 people.

This amateur-built East African church with mismatched towers is an architectural abnormality.

A hollowed-out baobab that became the horrific final resting place of leprosy sufferers, with gruesome evidence to prove it.

The world's first and only natural nuclear reactor.