A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

This bar is home to what's likely the oldest living jazz band in the world.

A tiny museum dedicated exclusively to the tiny art that decorates matchboxes.

Destruction from Armenia's 1988 earthquake inspired an artist's sculptures of scrap metal.

One man’s collection of photography books has transformed into a charming exhibition space.

The ruins of a medieval monastery built on a perilous slope.

This ancient monastery complex was transformed from an island to a peninsula when the lake was partially drained.

This medieval manuscript collection has some of the most obscure and ancient texts in the world.

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

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

In oil-rich Azerbaijan, people bathe in the black stuff.

What might be the largest completely Jewish town in the world outside of Israel now faces dwindling numbers and empty streets.

Swirling layers of white and red rock earned these mountains their festive nickname.

A unique museum dedicated to culture and artistry of carpet weaving.

This striking icon of the disputed Republic of Artsakh caused a stir at a Eurovision Song Contest.

A quirky house created entirely out of glass bottles combines a collector's spirit with an artist's flair.

A gigantic collection of teeny, tiny books.

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

Mysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fire.

South Korea's only sex-themed park.

A 1975 bylaw prohibits the construction of any building that would block the view of this Gothic Revival church.

Only six people can sit inside this delightfully quaint sanctuary.