A unique museum dedicated to culture and artistry of carpet weaving.

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

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.

Destruction from Armenia's 1988 earthquake inspired an artist's sculptures of scrap metal.

Hundreds of intricately carved Armenian stone crosses can be found within this huge cemetery.

Called the "Armenian Stonehenge," this ring of menhirs pierced with holes may be a prehistoric astronomical observatory.

Armenia's premier center of astrophysical research was established during the Soviet era.

Nestled in a peaceful valley, this Armenian monastery may have been saved from Mongols thanks to the eyes of God.

The world's longest nonstop reversible cable car soars through spectacular scenery to the medieval Tatev Monastery.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

This peculiar lake of pitch is so thick and viscous that one can walk on its surface.

Right up until the 20th century this network of man-made caves was the biggest village in Eastern Armenia.

This mysterious but iconic tapered tower appears in many Azeri fairytales and legends.

A shrine of fire worship built on top of a natural flame.

Mysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fire.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

This nostalgic Russian museum is full of USSR cultural artifacts from the 1970s and 80s.

This Soviet statue is based on a piece of propaganda that's been elevated to national myth.