Places We All Pod Down Here Wants to Go

With over 10,000 lights, this engineering marvel lights up the city after dark.

This extraordinary, multi-pillared monument depicts the fascinating history of Georgia.

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

Hidden up a dusty track off the Georgian Military Road is this fascinating waterfall with mountainous views.

When the Soviets destroyed the historic Armenian monastery they somehow left its bell tower intact.

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

Veryovkina Cave is more than 1.3 miles deep—the deepest known in the world.

Despite being tiny and rural this Georgian airport looks like a sci-fi boondoggle.

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

Legend says these stone structures are where the doomed citizens of a vanished village sent themselves to die.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

A gleaming white and undulating tower marks the border between Georgia and Turkey.

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

The cave holds a spectacular array of stalactites and stalagmites, including one shaped like a giant human heart.

The second largest in the world, this massive underground void has its own subway.

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

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

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

The second-deepest known cave on Earth, hidden in an extremely remote mountain region.

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."

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

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

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