An intimate look into the apartments of Jounieh via cable car.

Tower with a double-helix spiral, adorned with letters of the Georgian alphabet.

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

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

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

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

The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

Balanced on four stone pillars, this historic tower was the site of a tragic political assassination.

This mysterious cliffside carving of an ancient Hittite deity has baffled scholars for centuries.

This ancient abandoned church in a remote part of Turkey is in danger of falling over.

Remnants of successive wars and Muslim colonialism in the 11th century.

The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.

This former Imperial summer home was the venue for a royal slap that once echoed 'round the world.

This ancient city—home to nine civilizations—is soon to be buried under 200 feet of water.

Unfinished monument to peace between Turkey and Armenia, long divided by a dispute over genocide.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

Seven early Christians were sealed into a cave where legend has it they slept unharmed for centuries.

An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

Over the centuries, this island paradise has done it all, from providing monks with ecclesiastical respite to sheltering an exiled Leon Trotsky.

Mediterranean castle on a tiny Turkish island.

Fantastic lake on the heart of a fault line.

A surprising and unconventional mosque hidden in the subsoil of Istanbul.