Places tobbinator Wants to Go

This attraction is part anthropological journey and part amusement park.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

Despite a history of destruction, this former citadel survives to document Afghanistan's oft overlooked history.

200-foot-high minaret and only remnant of Afghanistan's lost city of the Turquoise Mountain.

Rock-cut chamber at top of an outcroup, reached by a mountain stairway of forty steps.

The West's first incursion into the Afghan world lies buried beneath a military base.

Highly unusual subterranean stupa and adjacent cave monastery.

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

This magnificent blue mosque in Afghanistan is surrounded by thousands of white doves.

Where the father of Persian poetry is laid to rest.

This dark, damp, perilous tunnel is the only passage from north to south Tajikistan.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

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

What might be the largest completely Jewish town in the world outside of Israel now faces dwindling numbers and empty streets.

Azerbaijani ghost town, decaying after a war left it an armed forces buffer zone.

Spring that emits water and fire at the same time is said to have remedial properties, and sparked its own religion.

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

Resonant stone, that has been played since prehistoric times.

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

Mysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fire.

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

Fortified homes of highland warriors that are still in use today.

Small church on top of a huge rock column.