A 2,000-year-old wine press hidden in an overlooked park in Tel Aviv.

Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

The remains of a medieval city loom in one of the most isolated desert regions of Turkmenistan.

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

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

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

An eccentric dictator's take on a Turkmen version of Disneyland.

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

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.

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

This museum is dedicated to one of Russia's greatest explorers.

These oldest of these "embroidered stones" were carved 4,000 years ago in a high mountain valley.

According to myth, there's a bloody explanation for the beautiful bright red color of this rock formation set amidst alpine vegetation.

Dedicated to a Bolshevik revolutionary, this museum is a true time capsule of the Soviet era.

This mysterious complex of abandoned yurts and fading murals was meant to be a center of science and spirituality in Kyrgyzstan.

This village was once a thriving Soviet uranium mining center, but is now semi-abandoned and desolate.

An unusual monument to a gentle giant who became a Kyrgyz hero.

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

A boulder carved into the shape of the cosmonaut's head.

This retro, UFO-like structure is a remnant of the Soviet-era circus.

Home to what was once considered the largest gate in central Asia.

The foundation of this ancient stupa dates back to the 1st-century.

Touching displays of wishes for peace from the Cold War era.