London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

This museum is dedicated solely to this millennia-old handheld cooling device.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

Taking the subway here means doing so over a bridge located in the middle of an estuary.

A surprising and unconventional mosque hidden in the subsoil of Istanbul.

The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.

A gorgeous, Gaudí-esque stairway constructed in the city of Istanbul by a prominent Jewish family.

An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.

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

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

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

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

Few people have ever heard of, let alone visited, one of Turkmenistan’s most impressive natural attractions.

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

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

This airport also offers travelers the chance to view thousands of years of Turkish history.

Soak up some local history in this restored Edwardian era swimming pool.

A well for a well, this anachronistically Indian-styled water pit was built in its small town home in gratitude for a similar favor.