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Small church on top of a huge rock column.

A city entirely devoted to illegal gun production.

Thousands of ancient rock carvings are scattered just off the highway.

The third largest ship breaking yard in the world has created an eerie shipping graveyard in southern Pakistan.

A tower built by an emperor for an antelope.

Lunar landscape, a mud volcano and bizarre rock formations.

Known as the most dangerous bridge in the world, the Hussaini Hanging Bridge is only one of many precarious rope bridges in Northern Pakistan.

Reputedly haunted sandstone necropolis with exquisite stone carvings.

These ruins disappear beneath the waves every winter.

The site of a prison camp where Cypriot resistance fighters were held in the 1950s.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

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

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

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