This series of Armenian caves held the oldest brain, shoe, and winery in the world.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

A scenic canyon with thick forests and historic ruins.

This striking icon of the disputed Republic of Artsakh caused a stir at a Eurovision Song Contest.

Right up until the 20th century this network of man-made caves was the biggest village in Eastern Armenia.

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.

A beautiful but deteriorating monument of Soviet architecture.

This extensive collection of vintage Soviet cars is the only one of its kind in the Caucasus.

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

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

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

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

The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.

A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

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

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

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

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

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

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.