Places aswope1995 Wants to Go

Ruins of a late 1950s Polish ski jump ramp in the middle of the city.

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

Stalin's secret bunker.

Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered.

An outstanding piece of retro Sci-Fi architecture built into a sacred mountain.

This ancient Silk Road outpost overlooking the Wakhan Valley is miraculously still standing.

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

The ruins of an ancient Zoroastrian Tower of Silence believed to be the earliest example of the traditional funerary practice.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

Few people have ever heard of, let alone visited, one of Turkmenistan’s most impressive natural attractions.

Complete town of 5,000 living out at sea on the world's first offshore oil platform.

This mysterious but iconic tapered tower appears in many Azeri fairytales and legends.

A shrine of fire worship built on top of a natural flame.

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

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

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

This extensive collection of vintage Soviet cars is the only one of its kind in the Caucasus.

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

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

A gleaming white and undulating tower marks the border between Georgia and Turkey.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

Men and special assistants stand by the road to sell the day's catch in this lakeside village.

An ancient church on a tiny island covered in stone bible stories has controversially been turned into a museum.