Places JonAkzar Wants to Go

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

A beautiful but deteriorating monument of Soviet architecture.

Hidden up a dusty track off the Georgian Military Road is this fascinating waterfall with mountainous views.

Tower with a double-helix spiral, adorned with letters of the Georgian alphabet.

Georgia’s answer to Easter Island immortalizes the nation’s great poets, artists, and leaders in stone glory.

This extraordinary, multi-pillared monument depicts the fascinating history of Georgia.

Despite being tiny and rural this Georgian airport looks like a sci-fi boondoggle.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

This extensive collection of vintage Soviet cars is the only one of its kind in the Caucasus.

Legend says these stone structures are where the doomed citizens of a vanished village sent themselves to die.

The cave holds a spectacular array of stalactites and stalagmites, including one shaped like a giant human heart.

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

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

The secret room where early Bolsheviks cranked out propaganda fliers on a smuggled printing press.

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

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

A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."

The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.

This neon lit Georgian cave claims to hold the boulder Prometheus was chained to.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.