Places Pengwn Wants to Go

On the Pakistan-India border the militaries perform an elaborate theater of aggression each and every night.

A modern tower, symbolizing the legend of a golden egg on top of the tree of life.

The world's second largest salt mine, said to have been discovered by Alexander the Great's horse.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

Built entirely of interlocking pieces, construction of this Chinese Muslim house of worship required zero nails.

A boulder carved into the shape of the cosmonaut's head.

Beatlemania is still going strong... at least in Kazakhstan.

In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.

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

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

An eccentric dictator's take on a Turkmen version of Disneyland.

An outstanding piece of retro Sci-Fi architecture built into a sacred mountain.

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

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

The world's second-tallest flagpole stands proud despite dropping rank.

A building facade covered with the statues of 11 giants of Tajik literature.

Avenue of trees planted by cosmonauts before their space departures.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

The largest dinosaurs in the world, kissing above the highway.

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

Thousands of artifacts tell Mongolia's military history, from the Bronze Age to the present.