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

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

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

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

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.

You'll find just about anything in this funky Tbilisi flea market.

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

Small church on top of a huge rock column.

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

Men and special assistants stand by the road to sell the day's catch in this lakeside village.

A natural bridge formed by limestone travertines in Armenia's Vorotan River Canyon.

An observatory with a 54-meter-wide radio telescope sits in the mountains of Armenia.

These ruins of a Soviet children's railway station have a haunted atmosphere.

Atop a small Armenian hilltop adorned with many forms, and carvings, these stones tell a whimsical tale from a fictional world.

Called the "Armenian Stonehenge," this ring of menhirs pierced with holes may be a prehistoric astronomical observatory.

Huge stairway leads to this massive gallery.

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

Nestled in a peaceful valley, this Armenian monastery may have been saved from Mongols thanks to the eyes of God.

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

This series of Armenian caves held the oldest brain, shoe, and winery in the world.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

This ancient monastery complex was transformed from an island to a peninsula when the lake was partially drained.

She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.