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

A memorial to the thousands of Turkmen soldiers and civilians who died in a bloody 1881 battle.

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.

A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.