The most metal church of all time was built in record time because of an international, pious pissing contest.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet your wish will be granted.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

Mausoleum and Holy Seat of Antiochus I of Commagene.

Remnants of successive wars and Muslim colonialism in the 11th century.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

This crucial gathering spot along the "hippie trail" still displays old notes between traveling beatniks and backpackers.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

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

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

At this rare mosque in Tbilisi, Sunni and Shia Muslims pray side by side.

Tower with a double-helix spiral, adorned with letters of the Georgian alphabet.

The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.

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

Small church on top of a huge rock column.

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

Rock-hewn monastery complex with hundreds of cave structures tucked away into the mountainside.

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

Unusual building appears to be haphazardly built from randomly piled bricks.

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

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

In memory of the 110 victims of ValuJet Flight 592 that crashed in the Everglades.