Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

A recreation of the bar from the classic 1942 movie “Casablanca.”

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

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

With over 10,000 lights, this engineering marvel lights up the city after dark.

17th century mosque for Shah Abbas' harem.

This 17th-century structure is a beautiful testimony to traditional Persian architecture

Mirrors and glass shards cover every inch of this arrestingly beautiful mosque.

A dreamy mausoleum honors Persia's most famous poet.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

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

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

Next to a newer mosque in Khujand’s main square lies the city’s oldest mosque, whose interiors are spectacularly intricate.

Looking for a unifying history, Uzbekistan finds its answer in a 14th Century Turco-Mongol conqueror... despite the fact he wasn't Uzbek.

An underground world of gorgeous, palatial metro stations designed as a nuclear shelter complex.

This sprawling market is a one-stop shop for traditional Kazakh foods, from mare’s milk to sheep’s head.

In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.

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

Controversially restored in the 1970s, this giant 15th-century mosque is shrouded in legend.

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

An ancient stone fortress considered by many to be the eighth wonder of the world.

An architectural marvel that combines Gothic architecture with Indian elements.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.