A solar-powered primary school inspires hope and experimentation in a country ripe for energy innovation.

This series of Armenian caves held the oldest brain, shoe, and winery in the world.

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

She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.

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.

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

A shipwreck named Desire at the shore of Batumi.

When the Soviets destroyed the historic Armenian monastery they somehow left its bell tower intact.

This extensive collection of vintage Soviet cars is the only one of its kind in the Caucasus.

At this rare mosque in Tbilisi, Sunni and Shia Muslims pray side by side.

Monks in the empyreal Alazani River valley have preserved their 1,000-year-old winemaking tradition.

You'll find just about anything in this funky Tbilisi flea market.

The cave holds a spectacular array of stalactites and stalagmites, including one shaped like a giant human heart.

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

A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.

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

This architecturally eclectic fortress witnessed centuries of bloody turmoil, including the massacre of its ruling clan.

A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

Unusual building appears to be haphazardly built from randomly piled bricks.

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