Places Added by Tawsam

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

Splashes of blue in an otherwise monotonous lunar landscape.

Highly unusual subterranean stupa and adjacent cave monastery.

A city entirely devoted to illegal gun production.

The Great Wall of Sindh, Pakistan's mighty fort.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

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

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.

Village of slate houses, built on a white marble outcrop.

The world’s largest LED display, built over an F1 race circuit.

Groups of prehistoric tombs that dot the mountains of northern Oman.

Silent memorial, using bone conduction to take people back to the Dresden Bombing of 1945.

A fortress-like granary that has been continually in use for more than nine centuries.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

Landscape of bizarrely shaped desert mountains and innumerable rock carvings.

Early Islamic mosque with several strange conical domes.

The place that allegedly inspired James Hilton's depiction of Shangri-La.

Small church on top of a huge rock column.

Ancient Egyptian relief, claimed to depict an electrical light.

Lived-in building, bedecked with an astonishing array of mirror mosaics.

Lonely minaret stump of a destroyed city.

Modern museum, designed for Jihadi tourists.