Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Amir Timur (Tamerlane) Museum
Looking for a unifying history, Uzbekistan finds its answer in a 14th Century Turco-Mongol conqueror... despite the fact he wasn't Uzbek.
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Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Looking for a unifying history, Uzbekistan finds its answer in a 14th Century Turco-Mongol conqueror... despite the fact he wasn't Uzbek.
London, England
Abstract dinosaur models in London.
Bled, Slovenia
This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.
Bakewell, England
Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.
Elbasan County, Albania
Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.
Bucharest, Romania
Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.
Golan
Ghost Town in the Demilitarized Zone of the Golan Heights.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
A symbol of Islam in oil-rich Brunei.
Pristina, Kosovo
A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.
Kampung Lupak Luas, Brunei
Ferdinand Magellan dubbed the world's largest water village the "Venice of the East."
Riga, Latvia
3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.
Riga, Latvia
A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.
Kyiv, Ukraine
340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.
San Lawrenz, Malta
Two geological phenomena in one precarious locale: a towering stone window, and a deep blue void.
Sultaniye Köyü, Turkey
The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.
Tirana, Albania
An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.
Chester, England
Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.
Bratislava, Slovakia
This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.
Thingvellir, Iceland
This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.
Reykjavik, Iceland
One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.
Berlin, Germany
The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.
Tirana, Albania
What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
A well kept and well documented look at the Bruneian Sultan's life and successes.