The grassy landscape is home to the world's last truly wild horses.

Home to fantastic views and ancient graves.

Looking for a unifying history, Uzbekistan finds its answer in a 14th Century Turco-Mongol conqueror... despite the fact he wasn't Uzbek.

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

An eccentric dictator's take on a Turkmen version of Disneyland.

This harsh mountain path was built as a strange attempt to improve the health of Turkmen citizens.

This 14th century castle withstood years of battle but is now sliding off the hills into the Danube.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

You can row a boat through this ancient underground reservoir.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

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

A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.

This remote stretch of sand is a penguin lover's paradise.