Punctuating the skyline of Ashgabat, Turkmenistan’s capital, is an architectural monstrosity that defies convention — the Neutrality Monument. This massive 95-meter grotesquely phallic arch, cloaked in gleaming white marble, was the brainchild of the country’s eccentric former president, Saparmurat Niyazov, during his megalomaniacal reign in the 1990s. — Read the rest
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