A mini-Stonehenge in the corner of the North Carolina state capitol grounds.

One of the few remaining railroad turntables is hidden near downtown Raleigh.

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

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

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

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

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

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

The remains of an ancient city-state along the Silk Road.

Right beyond the Uzbekistan-Tajikistan border lies the oldest human settlement in Central Asia.

This "tower of death" has acted as an observatory, a religious hub, and an executioner's lair.

Controversially restored in the 1970s, this giant 15th-century mosque is shrouded in legend.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

Time capsule of a museum, in which the Soviet Union remains alive and kicking.

Ancient barriers wrap around what was once an important stop along the Silk Road.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

An homage to Jackie Gleason's bus-driving character from 'The Honeymooners.'

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A hidden mid-city oasis, built for pollinators amid the concrete of federal buildings