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Veryovkina Cave is more than 1.3 miles deep—the deepest known in the world.

Georgia’s answer to Easter Island immortalizes the nation’s great poets, artists, and leaders in stone glory.

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

Legend says these stone structures are where the doomed citizens of a vanished village sent themselves to die.

The cave holds a spectacular array of stalactites and stalagmites, including one shaped like a giant human heart.

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

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

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

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

The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.

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

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

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

Small church on top of a huge rock column.

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

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

Underground monastery and fortress.

Huge stairway leads to this massive gallery.

An unusual double-stelae obelisk with ancient and mysterious origins.

Destruction from Armenia's 1988 earthquake inspired an artist's sculptures of scrap metal.

Hundreds of intricately carved Armenian stone crosses can be found within this huge cemetery.

Giant stone letters dedicated to the founder of Armenia's alphabet.