A tiny museum dedicated exclusively to the tiny art that decorates matchboxes.

This often-missed monastery, set in a scenic mountain landscape, features unique frescoes, fortifications and legends.

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

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

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

The ruins of a medieval monastery built on a perilous slope.

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.

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.

Right up until the 20th century this network of man-made caves was the biggest village in Eastern Armenia.

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

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

Half of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's ashes were buried in Armenia.

Huge stairway leads to this massive gallery.

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

Despite producing just a handful of movies, a brave and lyrical filmmaker has an entire museum dedicated to him.

This little medieval church hidden in the center of Yerevan was lost and rediscovered—twice.

This medieval manuscript collection has some of the most obscure and ancient texts in the world.

The luxurious circular mansion built for a Communist leader now lies abandoned.

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

Once the tallest building in Chisinau, this unique tower is a relic of Soviet architecture.

Once built to inspire young Soviet minds through astronomy, this dome now stands as a quiet relic of a vanished era.