Places Edited by Tomas Zagoda

Once a luxurious flagship of the Soviet Union, this Brutalist structure remains a landmark of Tashkent’s communist past.

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.

The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

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

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

Mysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fire.

An art museum with an eclectic design and a scandalous past.

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

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

A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."

Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

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