Just in case you need some cold cash at the top of the world.

Thousands of ancient rock carvings are scattered just off the highway.

Tibetan-influenced mountain fortress in Northern Pakistan.

One of the last surviving ancient Buddhist sites in the region, it escaped the brunt of several Hun invasions thanks to its remote location.

The place that allegedly inspired James Hilton's depiction of Shangri-La.

A mere stone's throw from Islamabad exists a spectacular display of three millennia of humanity's progress.

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.

These stairs were built to accommodate royals mounted on elephants.

One of the largest necropolises in the world is home to a stunning array of historic Middle Eastern tombs.

Reputedly haunted sandstone necropolis with exquisite stone carvings.

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

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

Hundreds of intricately carved Armenian stone crosses can be found within this huge cemetery.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

A unique park tells the geological history of Belarus in a national “map” of thousands of boulders and blue spruce.

A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.

In the land of the Light Brigade stands a testament to the Cold War.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.