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

This extraordinary, multi-pillared monument depicts the fascinating history of Georgia.

The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.

The location of the world's first telescope demonstration.

Lumps of significant stone from around the world surround a flaming monument for peace.

Rumored to have been frequented by Vincent van Gogh, it's the only remaining genever producer in the Hague.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

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

Hidden up a dusty track off the Georgian Military Road is this fascinating waterfall with mountainous views.

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

A lively circle of dancers in the Georgian capital commemorates an ancient rite of spring.

At this rare mosque in Tbilisi, Sunni and Shia Muslims pray side by side.

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

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

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city

Small church on top of a huge rock column.

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

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

Monks in the empyreal Alazani River valley have preserved their 1,000-year-old winemaking tradition.

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

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

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.