This grand hydraulic installation has provided water for townspeople since the Middle Ages.

Founded in 670, this ancient mosque is an architectural time portal.

A 15th-century granary that played the role of futuristic slave quarters in the world of 'Star Wars.'

An awesome blend of traditional architecture and street art.

The runoff from these fiery cliffs sends red water flowing into the sea.

At the heart of an otherwise bustling city lies some oddly abandoned and ignored historical ruins.

An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.

A bloody history is captured in this former prison turned museum.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

Eat a meal surrounded by bomb fragments.

Heavily bombed during the Vietnam War, this small town turns unexploded munitions into utensils.

In the world's most bombed country relative to its size, this incredible organization helps pick up the pieces.

This mysterious tower is said to enshrine a dormant seven-headed serpent that once protected Vientiane from destruction.

American bombs, morbid memorabilia, and graphic photographs tell the story of the CIA-led “Secret War” from the Pathet Lao perspective.

When the USA donated cement and funds to expand the airport in Laos, the Laotians built a massive monument instead.

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

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

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

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

The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.