Places Edited by nickfranssen

Within the Dadès Gorge, amazing vistas and towering cliff faces can be seen at each new curve and bend in the road.

The ruins of a medieval castle that once belonged to one of the most powerful families in the Netherlands.

Deliberately hidden for centuries, the magnificent Saadian Tombs were eventually uncovered in 1917.

Where the father of Persian poetry is laid to rest.

The largest Lenin statue in Central Asia was moved to an empty field rather than being destroyed.

This dark, damp, perilous tunnel is the only passage from north to south Tajikistan.

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

The legacy of a Moroccan Jewish community is remembered at this little mouldering cemetery.

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

An archaeological site believed to be the burial place of the "mother of us all."

Time capsule of a museum, in which the Soviet Union remains alive and kicking.

Former island in the Aral Sea used to be a top-secret Russian bio-weapons facility.

Most polluted lake in the world, used as a radioactive dumping ground for years.

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

One of the world's largest salt caves is filled with fragile salt sculptures, salt rivers, and huge salt megadomes.