Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan is nearly 90 per cent desert but in the capital the waterfalls almost never seem to stop flowing. They do so at the expense of the fast-shrinking Aral Sea, one of Central Asia's greatest environmental disaster zones.
Image 1 of 3: The proliferation of waterfalls in Turkmenistan's capital Ashgabat come at the expense of the fast-shrinking Aral Sea. Photo / Jill Worrall