Places breaingram Wants to Go

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

Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

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

An eccentric dictator's take on a Turkmen version of Disneyland.

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

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

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

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

The largest dam in the world and the site of a potential disaster.

The world's second-tallest flagpole stands proud despite dropping rank.

Where the father of Persian poetry is laid to rest.

The largest Lenin statue in Central Asia was moved to an empty field rather than being destroyed.

The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia has survived centuries of invasions, political shifts, and religious purges.

A huge communist-era propaganda monument and mural that offers stunning views of the Mongolian capital.

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

The grassy landscape is home to the world's last truly wild horses.

This spiritual landmark for practicers of Shamanism is drenched in milk and vodka and covered in blue scarves.

Mongolian Buddhists believe this monastery in the Gobi desert to be the center of the world's spiritual energy.

Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

Everything from a plane to your own two feet are needed to reach this jungle resort.

This remote Himalayan temple is in danger of being completely washed away by a melting glacier.

Thousands of effigies of Buddha watch from caves set high above a legendary river, plus whiskey.