The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.

This harsh mountain path was built as a strange attempt to improve the health of Turkmen citizens.

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

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

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

This Soviet statue is based on a piece of propaganda that's been elevated to national myth.

In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.

This sprawling market is a one-stop shop for traditional Kazakh foods, from mare’s milk to sheep’s head.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

A secluded, little-known temple hidden amid the dense jungle.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Lonely minaret stump of a destroyed city.

A stunning blue-green lake located in the Terskey Alatau mountain range.

Time capsule of a museum, in which the Soviet Union remains alive and kicking.

Instead of using billboards, some people here relay their messages on the side of a mountain.

A charmingly unusual prefabricated metal church designed by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.

It's just another skyscraper, but it's shaped like '90s cell phone.

Walk on a glass floor suspended over ancient mummified remains.

The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.

You can swim in these highly salty, mesmerizingly blue lakes in the Atacama Desert.

This observatory high on a hilltop in the center of Santiago got its start in 1852.

This museum covers 10,000 years of Pre-Columbian Latin American history.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.