A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families

The remains of a magnificent medieval fortress that was the capital of a vast empire.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."

A beautiful but deteriorating monument of Soviet architecture.

With over 10,000 lights, this engineering marvel lights up the city after dark.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

Legend says these stone structures are where the doomed citizens of a vanished village sent themselves to die.

The second largest in the world, this massive underground void has its own subway.

The secret room where early Bolsheviks cranked out propaganda fliers on a smuggled printing press.

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

This neon lit Georgian cave claims to hold the boulder Prometheus was chained to.

A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.

You'll find just about anything in this funky Tbilisi flea market.

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city

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

Ancient rock-hewn town that witnessed key events of Georgian history.

Underground monastery and fortress.

The exhibition explores the Icelandic city's Viking Age history.

On an island south of Iceland, a large volcanic rock formation resembles an elephant.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.