Tbilisi, Georgia
Dry Bridge Market
You'll find just about anything in this funky Tbilisi flea market.
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Tbilisi, Georgia
You'll find just about anything in this funky Tbilisi flea market.
Tbilisi, Georgia
A lively circle of dancers in the Georgian capital commemorates an ancient rite of spring.
Tbilisi, Georgia
The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.
Tbilisi, Georgia
A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."
Batumi, Georgia
The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.
Batumi, Georgia
A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.
Batumi, Georgia
Tower with a double-helix spiral, adorned with letters of the Georgian alphabet.
Georgia
A gleaming white and undulating tower marks the border between Georgia and Turkey.
Hasankeyf, Turkey
This ancient city—home to nine civilizations—is soon to be buried under 200 feet of water.
Diyarbakir, Turkey
Balanced on four stone pillars, this historic tower was the site of a tragic political assassination.
Denizli, Turkey
Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.
Selçuk, Turkey
This beautiful train graveyard is one of the largest collections of steam locomotives in the Mediterranean and Europe.
Kuşadası, Turkey
A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.
Thessaloniki, Greece
A little-known park with unusual, half-ruined structures and a mystical energy.
Thessaloniki, Greece
An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.
Lemnos, Greece
An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.
Lemnos, Greece
A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.
Kavala, Greece
This ancient structure appears Roman, but was constructed during the 16th century and was utilized until 1911.
Asparuhovo, Bulgaria
These natural cliffs look like they are a part of an old castle complex.
Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Kladovo, Serbia
One of the most important fortresses along the Danube now lies in ruins.
Boljetin, Serbia
Stone age urban planning.
Tekija, Serbia
A Roman monument to their own civil engineering prowess.
Dubova, Romania
A giant portrait of an ancient king looms over the river.