Places deriverative Wants to Go

This unique wooden mosque resembling a Chinese pagoda was said to be built without the use of nails.

A collection of Lenin busts and other Soviet Era statues sit idly behind the Semipalatinsk Hotel.

This was once the largest city in Kazakhstan, and a major stop on the Silk Road.

This 100-foot tall tombstone memorializes victims of 40 years of nuclear testing in Kazakhstan.

A remote, centuries-old underground mosque with a lunar aesthetic.

This small canyon is home to a treasure trove of geological oddities.

A theater with world-class acoustics, neo-Classical architecture and Kazakh ornaments.

Jurassic clays where the dinosaurs once roamed.

These rugged, color-stained mountains hold the secrets of the Kazakh desert.

A pocket of pine forests, healing lakes, and legendary rocks rising from Kazakhstan’s endless steppe.

The only building in Kazakhstan where symbols of sovereignty are collected under one roof.

An underground unique sacred place in the Kazakh steppe in which Sufism and nomadic tradition merge.

A unique interactive bronze sculpture that captures a real-life viral rescue.

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

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

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

An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.

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

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

A mysterious phallic rock on the grounds of a Buddhist monastery.

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

A jagged silhouette of shamanistic stone heaps rises from the shore of this dazzling mile-high lake.

Hidden treasures belonging to Mongolia's most revered and multi-talented monk spent decades buried in the Gobi desert.

People have been scribbling on this massive chunk of granite for more than 1,500 years.