Places uselessfactoid Wants to Go

A statue of Paulina Hermann, the eccentric noblewoman known as the "mother of cats."

A tribute to an iconic act of defiance from the Croatian War of Independence involving a small car.

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city

This ancient monastery complex was transformed from an island to a peninsula when the lake was partially drained.

The luxurious circular mansion built for a Communist leader now lies abandoned.

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

Georgia’s answer to Easter Island immortalizes the nation’s great poets, artists, and leaders in stone glory.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

A tiny museum dedicated exclusively to the tiny art that decorates matchboxes.

An unusual double-stelae obelisk with ancient and mysterious origins.

This often-missed monastery, set in a scenic mountain landscape, features unique frescoes, fortifications and legends.

Monks in the empyreal Alazani River valley have preserved their 1,000-year-old winemaking tradition.

Rock-hewn monastery complex with hundreds of cave structures tucked away into the mountainside.

This architecturally eclectic fortress witnessed centuries of bloody turmoil, including the massacre of its ruling clan.

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

A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.

The secret room where early Bolsheviks cranked out propaganda fliers on a smuggled printing press.

A lively circle of dancers in the Georgian capital commemorates an ancient rite of spring.

You'll find just about anything in this funky Tbilisi flea market.

A small mountain at the crossroads of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria that some believe was the landing point of Noah's Ark.

The surviving pieces of an ancient aqueduct that may have fed into the lost Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

The legendary fortress of a female Kurdish warrior leader.

An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.

9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.