Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

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

This neon lit Georgian cave claims to hold the boulder Prometheus was chained to.

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

Underground monastery and fortress.

The remains of an ancient city-state along the Silk Road.

The first version of this stalwart construction appeared around 3,000 years ago.

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

This ancient Silk Road outpost overlooking the Wakhan Valley is miraculously still standing.

This medieval citadel once guarded the western entrance of the Pamir Highway.

These oldest of these "embroidered stones" were carved 4,000 years ago in a high mountain valley.

Dedicated to a Bolshevik revolutionary, this museum is a true time capsule of the Soviet era.

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

Extremely isolated Silk Road caravanserai in the middle of nowhere.

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

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

Final palace complex of the last of 29 Kokand rulers.

Ancient barriers wrap around what was once an important stop along the Silk Road.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

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

A Stalinist prison camp for the wives and children of men accused of betraying the Soviet state is now a memorial museum.

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

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