Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

The best-preserved Roman small town in North Africa.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

Khmer Rouge's high security prison.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

An abandoned Cambodian resort that mirrored the downfall of the country as it was happening.

Limestone caves in the Cambodian countryside, once the site of genocide, now a place of peaceful beauty.

A quick and simple solution to Cambodia's train woes.

A gruesome memorial for those lost in this area during the Khmer Rouge genocide.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

This collection of reclaimed landmines acts as both an exhibition of their deadly history and as a shelter for children affected by them.

Abandoned limestone cave was once a sacred place of worship.

Thousands of effigies of Buddha watch from caves set high above a legendary river, plus whiskey.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

These "50 Fortresses" have been unearthed in the ancient oasis of Khwarezm.

This "tower of death" has acted as an observatory, a religious hub, and an executioner's lair.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.