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

Despite being tiny and rural this Georgian airport looks like a sci-fi boondoggle.

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

A Turkish monastery tucked into a cliff wall.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

Right up until the 20th century this network of man-made caves was the biggest village in Eastern Armenia.

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

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.

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

Tower with a double-helix spiral, adorned with letters of the Georgian alphabet.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

This smily stone feline is meant to represent a mythical lion that almost destroyed the island of Kea.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.