Artists made this mosque into a marvel of Ottoman baroque architecture.

In the hometown of the Catholic saint and Nobel Peace Prize winner, a memorial dedicated to her legacy.

This fortress dates back to the 6th century and is also the site of a controversial abandoned restoration project.

See how paper is made the old-fashioned way.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

This 13th-century monastery chiseled into the side of a mountain is equipped with a bridge that can be lifted to protect against raids.

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

Once the largest rope factory in Greece, this abandoned plant now stands like a ghost of industry past.