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Georgia’s answer to Easter Island immortalizes the nation’s great poets, artists, and leaders in stone glory.

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

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

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

This architecturally eclectic fortress witnessed centuries of bloody turmoil, including the massacre of its ruling clan.

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

Abandoned museum from the last days of Soviet domination, with a unique Brutalist design.

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

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

When the Soviets destroyed the historic Armenian monastery they somehow left its bell tower intact.

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

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

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

The location where the American Revolution ended.

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

Constructed during the roaring 20s, this restored historic hotel recalls its past as home to the first in-hotel distillery.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

Come for the history lesson, stay for the mule-pulled boat rides.