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

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

Nestled in a peaceful valley, this Armenian monastery may have been saved from Mongols thanks to the eyes of God.

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

This series of Armenian caves held the oldest brain, shoe, and winery in the world.

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.

She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.

Right up until the 20th century this network of man-made caves was the biggest village in Eastern Armenia.

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

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

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

Small church on top of a huge rock column.

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

Underground monastery and fortress.

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

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

An 18-meter-long sarcophagus of a constantly growing dead prophet.

Final palace complex of the last of 29 Kokand rulers.

These "50 Fortresses" have been unearthed in the ancient oasis of Khwarezm.

This "tower of death" has acted as an observatory, a religious hub, and an executioner's lair.

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

A magnificent, glittering building tucked into a tiny Bulgarian mountain town.

This ancient theater, restored in the 20th century, lives on as a venue for dramatic and musical performances.

The second-largest Jewish temple in Bulgaria was deserted after World War II, seized by the communist government and then abandoned again.