Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

A massive collection of petroglyphs dating back some 40,000 years.

The village's cobblestone streets are lined with shops displaying exquisite copper craftsmanship.

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

Foreign invaders almost left this lovely Caucasus palace alone—almost.

Resonant stone, that has been played since prehistoric times.

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

A gigantic collection of teeny, tiny books.

Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan is home to a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

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

The rubbery beast is sculpted from recycled materials.

Morocco’s modern capital was once a haven for Barbary pirates, who went so far as to establish a republic of their own.

The courtyard of this small Marinid madrasa is a dazzling example of intricate Islamic architecture.

God's Saharan sandbox of wrath.

The oldest known university in the world is in Fez, Morocco.

Vast stretch of tide-pools with a unique Moroccan charm.

This vast masterpiece of Moroccan architecture spreads across 20 acres.

Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.