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

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

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

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

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

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

This Underground station has been a popular filming location for decades, even before it closed.

The river depicted in the antiwar film 'Apocalypse Now' was likely based on this Mekong tributary.

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

This Himalayan airport provides one of the most difficult landings in the world.

A stupa built to protect Bhutan from evil forces and help bring peace to the world.

One of Bhutan's oldest temples was purportedly built to stop a giant female ogre from preventing the spread of Buddhism across Tibet.

This penis-focused monastery is dedicated to Buddhism's "Divine Madman."

This garden is very fertile.

Strange, gentle beasts resembling goat-cow hybrids roam within this patch of forest.

This giant Buddha statue has 125,000 smaller Buddhas hidden inside it.

The small sanctuaries lie just off the beaten path near one of Bhutan's most famous attractions.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

The largest and, arguably, most scenic fortress in Bhutan.

An 18th-century Nepali-style chorten built to subdue demons and evil spirits.