Built entirely of interlocking pieces, construction of this Chinese Muslim house of worship required zero nails.

The 18th-century home was disassembled into 253 cases and brought all the way from the other side of the world.

This historic tall ship traveled 1.5 million miles around the globe, and once did duty as the mythical pirate ship in Peter Pan.

Not the result of an accident, hurricane, or aliens, this is an eye-popping tribute to the Melbourne tram.

One of the oldest theaters in Australia, it's also said to be haunted by a performer who died on stage.

Hopefully inspecting his tin pan for little nuggets of gold.

The word 'wunderkammer' translates as 'wonder-chamber'. This Wunderkammer is both a museum and a retail store.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

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

Nicknamed Kazakhstan's Grand Canyon, this natural wonder lies east of Almaty near the Chinese border.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

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.

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

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

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

This dark, damp, perilous tunnel is the only passage from north to south Tajikistan.

The largest Lenin statue in Central Asia was moved to an empty field rather than being destroyed.

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

Beatlemania is still going strong... at least in Kazakhstan.