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Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

200-foot-high minaret and only remnant of Afghanistan's lost city of the Turquoise Mountain.

Despite a history of destruction, this former citadel survives to document Afghanistan's oft overlooked history.

Highly unusual subterranean stupa and adjacent cave monastery.

This magnificent blue mosque in Afghanistan is surrounded by thousands of white doves.

Climb atop one of the world's longest and heaviest trains for an unbelievable journey across the Sahara Desert.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

An unfinished Serbian Orthodox church with 1,389 golden crosses planned to represent the Battle of Kosovo.

This massive monument was unveiled the day Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.

The ceiling of this cavern is dripping with multicolored marble stalactites.

Christianity and Islam have clashed, yet here a Serbian Orthodox church and a mosque stand together.

This lonely minaret with an unusual decorative symbol is all that remains of a historic Ottoman mosque.

A 14th-century Serbian Orthodox church that was once converted into a mosque under the much-disfavored Ottoman Empire.

A monastery considered a state-protected cultural monument of exceptional importance, founded in the 14th century by Serbian King Stefan Dečanski.

A UNESCO-protected spiritual seat of the Old Serbian Kingdom and Empire.

One of Yemen’s oldest and most beautiful mosques was named for the incredible, historical queen buried inside it.

A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."

One of the largest mud-brick structures in the world.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.

Ruins of the laboratory where a mysterious doctor invented an embalming fluid and stored his mummies.

Plains of ash and pair of semi-active volcanoes contribute to the otherworldly beauty of this little-known Vanuatu island.

This small island off the coast of Uruguay hosts the largest colony of sea lions and fur seals in the southern hemisphere.

A replica of a famous Greek statue adorns the front of the unusual home of architect and alchemist Humberto Pittamiglio.